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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 28, 1952

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M OTHER ' S D A Y, 1952 April 22, 1952 [No. 2073]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS American mothers, who helped to settle our Nation and to blaze pioneer trails across it, have ever stood as symbols of benevolence, virtue, and idealism; and WHEREAS we are wont to set aside a day each year for special expressions of love and reverence for our mothers and of appreciation for the training and care with which they have enriched our lives; and WHEREAS, in official acknowledgment of the paramount place that mothers hold in our history as well as in our hearts, the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation calling for the celebration of the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby request the observance of Sunday, May 11, 1952, as Mother's Day, and I call upon the appropriate officials to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all Government buildings, and upon the people of the Nation to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places, on the appointed day. Let us all on that day, through prayer and through renewed expressions of our love and respect, pay honor to our mothers and to the ideals which they have taught us. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 22nd day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President:

36 USC 142.

Mother's Day, 1952.

D E A N ACHESON

Secretary oj State

TERMINATION

OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCIES PROCLAIMED SEPTEMBER 8, 1939, AND M A Y 27, 1941

ON

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

April 28, 1952 [No.;2974] • [No.

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2352 of September 8, 1939, the President proclaimed the existence of a national emergency in connection with and to the extent necessary for the proper observance, safeguarding, and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States of America and the strengthening of our national defense within the limits of peace-time authorizations; and WHEREAS by Proclamation No. 2487 of May 27, 1941, the President proclaimed the existence of an unlimited national emergency, requiring that the military, naval, air, and civilian defenses of this country be p u t on the basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed toward any part of the Western Hemisphere; and WHEREAS acts of agression against the United States of America by Axis Powers subsequently led to declarations by the Congress of 93300 O - 53 - 77

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