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National Salvation Army Week, 1954.

PROCLAMATIONS—DEC. 3, 1954

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STAT.

WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 31, 1954, 68 Stat. 997, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the week beginning November 28 as National Salvation Army Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning November 28, 1954, and ending December 4, 1954, as National Salvation Army Week; and I urge all of our citizens to honor the Salvation Army during that week for its work in the United States in the past seventy-five years. Let us remember that the banner of this organization, and the principles for which it stands, are stalwart bulwarks for the protection of the spiritual and physical needs of our people, and let us salute this great body of unselfish men and women during Salvation Army Week, with the knowledge that they have earned our esteem and praise in the fullest measure. 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 24th day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary

of

State.

UNITED NATIONS H U M A N RIGHTS DAY, December 3, 1954 [No. 3079]

1954

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

A PROCLAMATION

United Nations Human Rights Day, 1954.

WHEREAS December 10, 1954, marks the sixth anniversary of the proclaiming of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the General Assembly of the United Nations as a common standard of achievement for all nations and all peoples, and is observed by the member states of the United Nations as Human Rights Day; and WHEREAS December 15, 1954, marks the one hundred and sixtythird anniversary of the adoption of our Bill of Rights as the first ten Amendments of the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS these same rights are secured to us in the Constitutions and basic laws of our States and Territories; and WHEREAS an attachment to the noble principles of individual liberty and equal opportunity for all, as enunciated in these great documents, is the foundation of our democracy and a safeguard against dictatorship and tyranny: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the citizens of the United States to join with peoples throughout the world in observing December 10, 1954, as United Nations Human Rights Day, and on this day and on December 15, the anniversary of our Bill of Rights, as well as throughout the year, to give profound thanks to Almighty God for the rights the people of our Nation have so long enjoyed—freedom of speech and of the press; freedom to worship in accord with the dictates of conscience; fair trial and freedom from arbitrary arrest; the right to own property and to profit by the fruits of our labors. For these rights and freedoms men and women in

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