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PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 2, 1953

WHEREAS the Red Cross, as a recognized auxiliary of our armed forces, must continue to meet the needs of servicemen, veterans, and their families for help with their problems, at home and overseas; and WHEREAS the organization in the fiscal year 1951-1952 helped 32,000 disaster-stricken families with food, shelter, medical care, and rehabilitation, making its largest expenditure for disasters in more than a decade; and WHP^REAS the Red Cross, as an adjunct of the Federal Government, is training hundreds of thousands of Americans in health and safety skills so that they may protect themselves and their families in time of emergency; and WHEREAS the Red Cross, as the national coordinating agency for the procurement of blood for defense, is collecting the vast quantities required for military and civilian use and, in addition, is expanding its program to make gamma globulin available for the prevention of paralysis from poliomyelitis; and WHEREAS the Red Cross is appealing for $93,000,000 in voluntary contributions as the minimum amount required to help those in need of special assistance throughout the Nation in the year ahead: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America and Honorary Chairman of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate March 1953 as Red Cross Month; and I urge every American to respond as generously as possible to the appeal for funds for this humanitarian cause. IN 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 twentieth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER By the President:

Red Cross Month, 1953.

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary of State

SUPPLEMENTING PROCLAMATION N O. 2761A OF DECEMBER W I T H R E S P E C T TO CERTAIN CATTLE

16, 1947

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

March 2, 1953 [No. 3007]

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in the President by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (ch. 474, 48 Stat. 943; ch. 118 57 Stat. 125; ch. 269, 59 Stat. 410), on October 30, 1947, the President entered into a trade agreement with certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the related Protocol of Provisional Application thereof, together with the Final Act Adopted at the Conclusion of the Second Session

19 USC 1351.

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