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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 24, 1952

NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim: That as of this day the conditions specified in sections 9(b) and 1 (e) of title 17 of the United States Code exist and are fulfilled with respect to nationals of the Principality of Monaco, and that nationals of the Principality of Monaco as of this day are entitled to all the benefits of the said title 17 except those conferred by the provisions embodied in the second paragraph of section 9(b) thereof regarding the extension of time for fulfilling copyright conditions and formalities. Provided, that the enjoyment by any work of the rights and benefits conferred by the said title 17 shall be conditioned upon compliance with the requirements and formalities prescribed with respect to such works by the copyright laws of the United States: And provided fvrther, that the provisions of section 1(e) of the said title 17, so far as they secure copyright controlling parts of instruments serving to reproduce mechanically the musical work, shall apply only to compositions published on or after this day, and registered for copyright in the United States which have not been reproduced within the United States prior to this day on any contrivance by means of which the work may be mechanically performed. 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 fifteenth day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. HARRY S TRUMAN By the President: '

Copyright benefits to nationals of Monaco. 61 Stat. 655, 652.

61 Stat. 652.

DAVID BRUCE

Acting Secretary of State

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ARMISTICE D A Y,

1952

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

October 24. 1952 [No. 2994]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the American people, who detest war and reject it as an instrument of national policy, were nevertheless drawn into two world-wide conflicts within one generation, in the defense of freedom, and are even now engaged in an epic struggle against shameless aggression; and WHEREAS the Armistice of November 11, 1918, which furled the flags of World War I, brought hope and promise to us and to all mankind that wars between nations were at an end; and WHEREAS the Congress passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), calling for the observance of November 11 with appropriate ceremonies, and later provided in an act approved May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351), that the eleventh of November should be a legal holiday and should be celebrated and known as Armistice Day; and .. ^,.....,,-...,,: ,;.;;r..

5 USC 87a.

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