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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 28, 1955

WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations has resolved that October 24, the anniversary of the coming into force of the United Nations Charter, should be dedicated each year to making known the aims and accomplishments of the United Nations, and has called on the Governments of all Member States especially to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Monday, October 24, 1955, as United Nations Day by means of community programs that will demonstrate their faith in, and support of, the United Nations and that will create a better public understanding of its problems and of its aims and achievements. I also call upon the officials of the Federal, State, and local Governments, the United States Committee for the United Nations, representatives of civic, educational, and religious organizations, and agencies of the press, radio, television, and motion pictures, as well as all citizens, to cooperate in appropriate observance throughout our country of this tenth anniversary of the United Nations. 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 5th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-five, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

United Nations Day, 1955.

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

LOYALTY DAY,

1955

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

Arril 28, 1955 [No. 3091]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the prime requisite for retaining our freedom is unswerving devotion to the liberties embodied in our Constitution; and WHEREAS it is fitting that a special day be set aside for solemn re-evaluation of those priceless gifts of freedom which are our heritage, to the end that we may stimulate and renew that high sense of patriotism which has signalized our glorious history as a Nation; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved April 27, 1955, has set aside May 1, 1955, as Loyalty Day and has authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation calling upon the people to observe that day by reaffirming their loyalty to our beloved country: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby request all our citizens to observe Sunday, May 1, 1955, as Loyalty Day with suitable ceremonies. I also request,the appropriate officials to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States upon all Government buildings on that day as a manifestation of our loyalty to the Nation which that flag symbolizes.

Ante, p. 44.

Loyalty Day, 1955.

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