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 c8 69 Stat. 162. 19 USC 1351.

19 USC 1352.

53 Stat. 1966.

19 USC 1351.

Termination of Ecuadoran Trade Agreement Proclamation. 69 Stat. 162. 19 USC 1351. 53 Stat. 1951.

PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 1, 1955

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entitled "An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48 Stat. 943), the time within which the President was authorized to enter into trade agreements pursuant to such amending act having been extended for three years from June 12, 1937, by the joint resolution of Congress approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), the President of the United States entered into a trade agreement with the Supreme Chief of the Republic of Ecuador on August 6, 1938 (53 Stat. 1952), and proclaimed such trade agreement by proclamation of September 23, 1938 (53 Stat. 1951); and WHEREAS Article X IX of the said trade agreement provides that the agreement shall remain in force and effect until six months from the day on which either Government shall give notice of its intention to terminate it; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the said Article X IX the Government of the United States of America gave notice on July 18, 1955, of its intention to terminate the said trade agreement; and WHEREAS the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, authorizes the President to terminate, in whole or in part, any proclamation carrying out a trade agreement entered into under NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including the said section 350(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim that the said proclamation dated September 23, 1938, shall be terminated as of the close of January 17, 1956, six months from the day on which notice of termination of the said trade agreement was given by the Government of the United States of America. IN 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-seventh day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] fifty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightieth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State.

,, September 1, 1955 [No. 3112]

AMERICAN EDUCATION W E E K,

1955

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

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the pioneers of our Nation established schools and colleges and regarded education as a bulwark of the American way of life; and WHEREAS the Nation's schools and educational institutions have contributed immeasurably to the welfare of our people and to the progress and security of our country; and WHEREAS education contributes not only to the development of a fuller and more useful life for the individual citizen but also to the safeguarding of the freedoms and ideals which we cherish as Americans; and WHEREAS in this year of the White House Conference on Education our people have a right to take special pride in our Nation's

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