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PROCLAMATIONS—DEC. 24, 1952

in our own history falls close to the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and WHEREAS many of the rights and freedoms set forth in our Bill of Rights and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including the immeasurable privileges of freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and petition, are similarly affirmed in the constitutions and basic laws of our States and territories; and WHEREAS it is fitting that this anniversary should be observed by our schools, our churches, our labor unions, and our religious, educational, and civic organizations of all kinds the freedom of which has been safeguarded through these guarantees of individual liberty: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, having in 1949 designated December 10 of that year and each succeeding year as United Nations Human Rights Day, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to celebrate December 10, 1952, by studying the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Constitution of the United States, and the constitutions of our States and territories, and by giving thanks for the priceless heritage of liberty embodied in these great documents. We do not forget that in past years men in many lands have died to win these freedoms and preserve them for our generation. I t is to defend and safeguard these same freedoms that the United Nations is resisting communist aggression in Korea, and is seeking to promote the liberty and security of all peoples. In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common purpose to defend and further the rights and freedoms of all people as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and in so doing renew our determination that here in our own land the great guarantees in our Bills of Rights shall not be lost or weakened or curtailed. 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 1st day of December 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:

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C e l e b r a t i o n of United Nations Human Rights Day. 64 Stat. A379.

DAVID B R U C E

Acting Secretary of State

GRANTING PARDON TO CERTAIN PERSONS W H O H A V E SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE J U N E 25, 1950 BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

December 24, 1952 fNo. 3000]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Constitution of the United States provides that the President "shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for

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