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 CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-MAY 21, 1966

B32 May 21, 1956 [H. Con. R e s. 230] Printing of additional c o p i e s of hearings.

U. S. MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATION FOR TRADE COOPERATION

Resolved by the House of Representatives {the Senate concurring)^ That there be printed two thousand five hundred additional copies of the hearings on H. R. 5550, a bill authorizing the President to accept membership for the United States in the Organization for Trade Cooperation, held by the Committee on Ways and Means for the use of the said committee. P a s s e d May 21, 1956.

May 24, 1956 [S. Con. R e s. 80]

Anto, p. 254.

June 6, 1956 [H. Con. R e s. 232]

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LUMBEE INDIANS OF NORTH CAROLINA

Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring)^ That the action of the Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives and of the President of the Senate in signing the enrolled bill (H. R. 4656) relating to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina be, and it is hereby, rescinded, and that the engrossed bill be returned to the Senate. Agreed to May 24, 1956.

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AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS AVhereas the American National Red Cross is now receiving congratulations from all over the world upon the occasion of its seventyfifth anniversary; and Whereas in the period following the adoption of the first Treaty of the Red Cross in 1864, to which the United States Government adhered in 1882, the name and emblem of the Red Cross has come to be recognized throughout the civilized world as a symbol toward which those in need can repair and under which all peoples dedicated to the impartial relief of human suffering can enlist; and Whereas the obligations of this Government and its people under the Treaty of the Red Cross justified the establishment by the Congress of the American National Red Cross as the official agent of this Government to assist in the discharge of such obligations and to engage in other activities for the welfare and relief of the Armed Forces and the prevention and alleviation of human suffering resulting from disasters and emergencies at home and abroad; and Whereas more than fifty years ago the Congress determined that the work of the American National Red Cross was of such importance to the Government and people of the United States and to the preservation of the dignity of all human beings that provision should be made for its operation under such grant of authority and such Government supervision as would impart official status and thus invite the confidence and support of all the people, but that, to preserve and safeguard its impartial, nonpolitical character, it should carry out its duties solely by means of the voluntary contributions of funds and services by the people; and Whereas the present American Red Cross membership of over twenty-three million, the record during the past half century of voluntary contributions totaling more than two billion three hundred and fifty million dollars and countless billions of hours of selfless Red Cross volunteer service, all devoted to the mitigation of human suffering in every country of the world, attests to the accomplishment of the intended purposes of the Congress: Now, therefore, be it

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