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Memorial Day, 1953.

PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 1, 1953

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that the President issue a proclamation calUng upon the people of the United States to observe each Memorial Day in that manner: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Memorial Day, Saturday, May 30, 1953, as a day of prayer for permanent peace, and I designate the hour beginning a t eleven o'clock in the morning of that day. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, as a period in which all the people of the Nation, each according to his religious faith, may unite in solemn prayer. Let us make that day one of twofold dedication. Let us reverently honor those who have fallen in war, and rededicate ourselves through prayer to the cause of peace, to the end that the day may come when we shall never have another war^—^never another Unknown Soldier. 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 twenty-first day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-seventh. • DWIGHT D EISENHOWER By the President: ? * '<" • W A L T E R B SMITH

Acting Secretary of State

FLAG D A Y, 1953 June 1, 1953 [No. 3017]

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

A PROCLAMATION

Flag Day, 1953.

WHEREAS the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, adopted the design of our Nation's flag, which we cherish as the emblem of our freedom, our strength, and our unity; and WHEREAS the flag also symbolizes our glorious past and our determination to preserve in the future those ideals and principles which are the foundations of our Nation's greatness; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 3, 1949 (63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of each year as Flag Day and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling for its observance: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct that the flag be displayed on all Government buildings on Sunday, June 14, 1953, and I call upon all our people to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies. Let us display the flag proudly at our homes and other suitable places, giving solemn thought to the inestimable privileges of living under its protective stars and stripes, and let us rededicate ourselves to the corresponding obligations—of patriotism, service, and mutual respect—which are inherent in those privileges.

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