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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 26, 1956

in excess of a quantity notified to the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to clause (b) of that recital, shall be 45 per centum ad valorem. 2. The said proclamation of December 16, 1947, specified in the first recital of this proclamation, and the said proclamation of June 2, 1951, specified in the third recital of this proclamation, as amended, shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to the foregoing provisions of this proclamation. 3. In order to carry out the said trade agreement specified in the first recital of this proclamation, the list set forth in the seventh recital of the said proclamation of January 30, 1948, as amended by the said proclamation of June 13, 1956, is hereby further amended by deleting the last line in item 1406 of such list, reading "Cigar bands 35i per l b. " 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 aflSxed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 28th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

61 Stat. 1103. 65 Stat. C12.

62 Stat. 1479; 70 Stat. C33.

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,

Secretary of State.

NATIONAL OLYMPIC D A Y,

1956

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

October 26, 1956 [No. 3161]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the XVIth Olympic Games of the modern era will be held in Melbourne, Australia, beginning November 22 and ending December 8, 1956; and WHEREAS these games afford an opportunity for the finest men and women athletes from more than seventy participating countries to assemble together in an atmosphere of friendly competition and good sportsmanship; and WHEREAS these athletes, who represent different nations, creeds, and races, meet together in competitive tests of their athletic abilities under rules and conditions which offer equality of opportunity for all; and WHEREAS experience has shown that contestants and spectators have returned to their homes from Olympic Games not only refreshed in their friendships and richer in their understanding of other peoples, but also with new insight into the brotherhood of man; and WHEREAS in these times of international tensions the peoples of the world need the stabilizing influence of the friendly relations, wholesome competition, and high ideals of sportsmanship engendered by the Olympic Games; and WHEREAS the United States Olympic Association is presently engaged in assuring maximum support for the team representing the United States at Melbourne: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Saturday, October 27, 1956, as National Olympic Day; and I urge the fullest possible participation in its observance by people throughout the United States.

National Day, 1956.

Olympic

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