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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 21, 1958

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NATIONAL M A R I T I M E D A Y, 1958 BY THE P R E S I D E N T

OF THE UNITED

STATES

OF AMERICA

April 10, 1958 [No. 3234]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a strong American Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of the free world; and WHEREAS 1958 marks the year in which the keel of the N.S. Savannah, the world's first nuclear-propelled merchant ship, will be dedicated by the people of the United States to peaceful trade and commerce; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73), designated May 22 as National Maritime Day, in 36 USC i45. commemoration of the departure from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819, of a vessel, also named the Savannah, on the first transoceanic voyage by any steamship, and requested the President to issue a proclamation annually calling for the observance of that day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, Presi- jy^^f^i] ^""*™" dent of the United States of America, do hereby urge the people of the United States to honor our Merchant Marine on Thursday, May 22, 1958, by displaying the flag of the United States at their homes or other suitable places; and I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the fiag on all Government buildings on that day. I also request that all ships sailing under the American flag dress ship on the twenty-second day of May in tribute to the American Merchant Marine. 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. DONE at the City of Washington this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-second. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER

DULLES,

Secretary of State.

WITHDRAWAL

or

TRADE AGREEMENT CONCESSION CLINICAL THERMOMETERS

ON

CERTAIN

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

April 21, 1958 [No. 3235]

A PROCLAMATION 1. WHEREAS, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1351), the President, on April 21, ^^^t^'- ^^s1951, entered into a trade agreement providing, among other things, for the accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (61 Stat. (Parts 5 and 6) A 7, A l l, and A 2 0 5 1) of certain foreign countries, which trade agreement consists of the Torquay Protocol to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, including the annexes thereto, hereinafter referred to as the "Torquay Protocol" (3 UST 615); 2. WHEREAS Schedule X X in Annex A to the said Torquay Protocol (3 UST 1125) became a schedule to the said General Agree-

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