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PROCLAMATIONS—AUG. 16, 1952

public attention to the need for Nation-wide support of and interest in the employment of otherwise qualified but physically-handicapped men and women: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of our Nation to observe the week beginning October 5, 1952, as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, and to cooperate with the President's Committee on Employment of the Physically Handicapped in carrying out the purposes of the aforementioned joint resolution of Congress. I also request the Governors of States, the mayors of municipalities, other public officials, leaders of industry and labor, and members of religious, civic, veterans', agricultural, womens', handicapped-persons', and fraternal organizations, as well as other groups representative of our national life, to take part in the observance of the designated week, in order to enlist the widest possible public support of programs designed to increase opportunities in employment for the physically handicapped. 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 15th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President:

National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, 1952.

DAVID BRUCE

Acting Secretary of State.

MODIFICATION OF TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSION AND ADJUSTMENT IN THE R A T E OF D U T Y W I T H R E S P E C T TO D R I E D F I G S BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

August 16, 1952 [No. 2986]

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the Statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on April 21, 1951, I entered into a trade agreement providing for the accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade of certain foreign countries, including the Republic of Turkey, which trade agreement consists of the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated April 21, 1951, including the Annexes thereto, and by Proclamation No. 2929 of June 2, 1951 (3 CFR, 1951 SUPP., 27; T D 52739), I proclaimed such modifications of existing duties and other import restrictions of the United States of America and such continuance of existing customs or excise treatment of articles imported into the United States of America as were then found to be required or appropriate to carry out the said trade agreement on and after June 6, 1951, which proclamation has been supplemented by several notifica-

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