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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 23, 1953

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observe the week beginning July 19 as National Farm Safety Week, and I urgently request every farm resident to cooperate in an all-out effort to make 1953 as accident-free as possible. To the end that American farm people may " F a r m To Live and Live To Farm," I request all organizations and persons interested in farm life to join in a campaign to prevent accidents on the farm, on the highway, in the home, or wherever they may occur. 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 seventeenth day of April 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: '

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

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Secretary of State

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April 23, 1953 [No^3012]

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WORLD TRADE W E E K, 1953

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA

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A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it is the policy of this Government to foster mutual understanding and friendship among nations; and WHEREAS world trade, freely conducted by private enterprise, increases material well-being and develops friendly intercourse among free peoples; and WHEREAS international trade among the nations of the free world adds to the economic strength upon which their common defense is based; and WHEREAS increased international exchange of goods, services, and capital promotes better economic utilization of the world's resources and higher standards of living; and WHEREAS expanded world trade advances the ideal of unity among all mankind and strengthens the foundation for lasting peace and prosperity: ^^worid Trade Week, J ^ Q ^ THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 17, 1953, as World Trade Week; and I request the appropriate officials of the Federal Government and of the several States, Territories, possessions, and municipalities of the United States to cooperate in the observance of that week. I also urge business, labor, agricultural, educational, and civic groups, as well as the people of the United States generally, to observe World Trade Week with gatherings, discussions, exhibits, ceremonies, and other appropriate activities.

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