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PROCLAMATIONS—FEB. 21, 1957

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men of religion, George L. Fox, of Oilman, Vermont, Methodist; Alexander D. Goode, of York, Pennsylvania, Jewish; Clark V. Poling, of Schenectady, New York, Reformed Church in America; and John P. Washington, of Newark, New Jersey, Roman Catholic; and WHEREAS the Congress, by House Concurrent Resolution 90, agreed to by the Senate on January 30, 1957, has set apart the third day of February 1957 as a day dedicated to the memory of these four chaplains, and of other brave men who died on the Dorchester: Day, NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct the appropriate officials to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Dorchester Day, February 3, 1957; and I call upon the people of the United States to observe that day in churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies, in commemoration of the heroic conduct and the deaths of the four chaplains and other brave men who lost their lives in the sinking of t n f T/ovchp ^fpv

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 second day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER

DULLES,

Secretary of State.

P A N AMERICAN D A Y AND P A N AMERICAN W E E K, February 21, 1957 [No. 3170]

1957

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

Pan American Day and Pan American Week, 1957.

WHEREAS on April 14, 1890, the American Republics founded a bureau for inter-American cooperation which now, as the Pan American Union, is an organ and the general secretariat of the Organization of American States; and WHEREAS the twenty-one Republics of the Western Hemisphere will celebrate April 14, 1957, the sixty-seventh anniversary of that historic action, as Pan American Day, at the end of a week of commemorative ceremonies; and WHEREAS the American Republics continue to work together harmoniously in furtherance of their mutual objective of making the Organization of American States an increasingly effective instrument of Hemispheric solidarity; and WHEREAS they also continue steadfast in their common determination to maintain their freedom and safeguard their peace through active participation in this Organization, which embodies our inter.American system of cooperation: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Sunday, April 14, 1957, as Pan American Day, and the period from April 8 to April 14, 1957, as Pan American Week; and I invite the Governors of the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States of America and the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to issue similar proclamations. I also urge all our citizens and all interested organizations to join in appropriate observance of Pan.American Day and Pan American

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