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PROCLAMATIONS—APR. 18, 1959

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other interested organizations, to observe Friday, May 1, 1959, as Loyalty Day, in schools and other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in which all of our people may join in the reaffirmation of their loyalty to the United States and the renewal of their dedication to the concepts of the freedom and dignity of man. I also direct the appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day. IN 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 eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: ROBERT M U R P H Y,

Acting Secretary of State.

UNITED NATIONS D A Y, 1959 tpril 18, 1959 iNo. 3283]

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

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the United Nations is identified with the profound hope of the world's peoples that they might live together in peace, resolving their differences in the spirit of conciliation and equity, and freely pursuing their just aspirations for material and social progress; and WHEREAS the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies have responded to that hope by achieving peaceful solutions to matters of international dispute, by promoting the rule of world law, and by effectively joining in man's struggle against hunger, poverty, ignorance, and fear; and WHEREAS the people of the United States of America are steadfastly working for the eventual fulfillment of the goals of the United Nations as expressed in its Charter; and WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations has resolved that October twenty-fourth, 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: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Saturday, October 24, 1959, as United Nations D a y by means of community programs which will demonstrate their faith in the United Nations and contribute to a better understanding of its aims, problems, and achievements. 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 to engage in appropriate observance of United Nations D a y throughout the land in cooperation with the United States Committee for the United Nations,

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