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Child Health Day, 1954.

PROCLAMATIONS—MAR. 20, 1954

[68 S T A T.

WHEREAS home life that is satisfying physically, emotionally, and spiritually is essential to the development of healthy personality in children; and WHEREAS Child Health Day is a suitable occasion for emphasizing the fundamental importance to our Nation of wholesome family life: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the first day of May, 1954, as Child Health Day; and I urge all families to make this a day when parents and children join in family activity of work or play that will strengthen and enrich the union between them. I also invite all organizations and groups interested in child welfare to unite upon that day in observances designed to enhance family ties throughout the year. 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 17th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-eighth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S

Secretary oj State

P A N AMERICAN D A Y, March 20, 1954 [No. 3046]

1954

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

A PROCLAMATION

Pan American Day, 1954.

WHEREAS the American Republics jointly and severally honor April 14 as a date of Hemisphere significance, since that day sixtyfour years ago marked the beginning of the association which has developed into the Organization of American States and in which the twenty-one American Republics are Member States; WHEREAS the Tenth Inter-American Conference this year focuses attention once again upon the fundamental importance of interAmerican solidarity as an indispensable bulwark of the free world; WHEREAS the reciprocal friendship, mutual respect, and steadfast cooperation of the American Republics stand as an example which other nations have come to recognize and accept as a workingmodel for international relationships; WHEREAS for all of the foregoing reasons April 14 is a recurrent occasion for thanksgiving and rejoicing on the part of the people of the United States in common with the sister nations of America: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Wednesday, April 14, 1954, as Pan American Day, for celebration by the people of this nation as the day of the Americas and a day for expressing that good will toward the other American peoples and that faith in our mutual adherence to the principles of freedom and democracy which have inspired our independence as nations and cemented our cooperation as neighbors. I call upon officials of the Federal, State, and local Governments; representatives of civic, educational, and religious organizations; agencies of the press, radio, television, motion picture, and other media of communication; and all the people of the United States of America, to cooperate in fitting observance of Pan American Day, by ceremonies

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