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PROCLAMATIONS—JAN. 22, 1958

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SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY CELEBRATION BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

January 15, 1958 [No. 3217]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the completion of the Saint Lawrence Seaway in 1959 will mark the inauguration of a new era of direct transoceanic waterborne commerce between inland ports of the Great Lakes of North America and the far-flung ports of the world; and WHEREAS, from January 1 to December 31, 1959, the City of Chicago in the State of Illinois will celebrate the completion of the Saint Lawrence Seaway inviting attention to the importance of the Seaway and the North American ports that it will serve; WHEREAS the program of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Celebration at Chicago will include the Pan American Games of 1959, a Festival of the Americas, and an International Fair and Exposition which have for their purpose the promotion of international understanding and the display of the products of the world; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 30, 1957, 71 Stat. 512, authorized the President of the United States, by proclamation or in such other manner as he might deem proper, to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the Saint Lawrence Seaway Celebration to be held at Chicago during 1959 for the purpose of promoting foreign and domestic commerce and fostering good will among nations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the programs of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Celebration to be held at Chicago, Illinois, in 1959. I N WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fifteenth day of Janupry in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President:

St. Lawrence Seaway Celebration.

JOHN FOSTER D U L L E S,

Secretary of State.

P A N AMERICAN D A Y AND P A N AMERICAN W E E K, 1-958 BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS on April 14, 1958, the twenty-one American Republics will celebrate the sixty-eighth anniversary of the founding of a bureau for inter-American cooperation which, as the Pan American Union, now serves as the permanent Organ and General Secretariat of the Organization of American States; and WHEREAS the evolution of the Organization of American States into its present form has been accompanied by an ever-increasing solidarity of the peoples of the Republics of the Western Hemisphere; and

January 22, 1958 [No. 3218]

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