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PROCLAMATIONS—JUNE 26, 1957

[71 STAT.

WHEREAS the United Nations has been instrumental in preventing open conflict between nations by offering its machinery for concihation, negotiation, and pacific settlement; and WHEREAS the United Nations, in cooperation with the Specialized Agencies, has been helping to create the basic conditions for peace by encouraging greater production of food, better health, higher standards of living, and greater educational opportunities; and 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 purposes, principles, and accomplishments of the United Nations: jyZ'lmf. ' ' ' " ° ° ' NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Thursday, October 24, 1957, as United Nations Day by means of community programs which will demonstrate their faith in, and support of, the United Nations and will contribute to a better understanding of its accomplishments and of the hopes that inspired its founders. I also call upon the officials of the Federal and State Governments and upon local officials to encourage citizen groups and agencies of the press, radio, television, and motion pictures, as well as all citizens, to engage in appropriate observance of United Nations Day throughout our country in cooperation with the United States Committee for the United Nations. I N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set m y 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-sixth day of June 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,

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Secretary of State.

IMMIGRATION Q U O T A — G H A N A June 26, 1957 [No. 3188A]

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

A PROCLAMATION fusciiM'.

suscnsi. 8 USC n52.

WHEREAS under the provisions of section 202(a) of the Immigra^^^^ ^^^ Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and WHEREAS under the provisions of section 201(b) of the Immigrat^JQj^ j^j^^j Nationality Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota area established pursuant to i^jjg provisions of section 202(a) of the said act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and WHEREAS the State of Ghana came into existence on March 6, 1957, when the former British West African Colony of the Gold Coast was granted independence by the Government of the United

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