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PROCLAMATIONS—DEC. 24, 1958

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WHEREAS fundani'ental rights and freedoms—freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of assembly and association, freedom of conscience and religious worship, the right to fair trial and equal treatment under law—are being sought by peoples everywhere; and WHEREAS we must press forward to achieve these fundamental rights and freedoms for all persons equally: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period of December 10 to December 17, 1958, as Human Rights Week; and I call upon the citizens of the United States to observe this week by rereading and studying the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the United States and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, that we may all be reminded of our many responsibilities and privileges as a people blessed by a heritage of freedom and equality. Let us firmly rededicate ourselves to the achievement of the goals of liberty and equal opportunity for posterity, for ourselves and for our neighbors throughout the world. 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 twentieth day of November 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 afid eighty-third. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: CHRISTIAN A. H E R T E R,

Acting Secretary of State.

DETERMINING CERTAIN D R U G S TO B E OPIATES BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

December 24, 1958 [No. 3266]

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 4731(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 provides in part as follows: "OPIATE.—The word 'opiate', as used in this part shall mean any drug (as defined in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; 52 Stat. 1041, section 201(g); 21 U.S.C. 321) found by the Secretary or his delegate, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, to have an addiction-forming or addictionsustaining liability similar to morphine or cocaine, and proclaimed by the President to have been so found by the Secretary or his delegate. * * *;"

AND WHEREAS the Secretary of the Treasury, after due notice and opportunity for public hearing, has found that each of the following-named drugs has an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine, and that in the public interest this finding should be effective immediately: (1) (—) 3-Hydroxynormorphinan [(•—) 3-Hydroxymorphinan]. (2) 2'-hydroxy-2,5,9-trimethyl-6,7-benzmorphan. (3) 3-Allyl-l-methyl-4-phenyl-4-propionoxypiperidine. (4) Dimethylaminoethyl diphenyl-a-ethoxyacetate. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim that the Secretary of the Treasury has found that each of the aforementioned drugs has

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