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PROCLAMATION 3342—APR. 1, 1960

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in appropriate observance of United Nations Day throughout the land in cooperation with the United States Committee for the United Nations and other organizations. IN 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 thirty-first day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eightyfourth. Dv^iGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President: CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Secretary of State.

NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1960 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

April i^ 9 o ,^6

WHEREAS ships that fly the flag of the United States serve our people in trade, commerce, and defense; and WHEREAS American shipping is pioneering in the scientific development which this year will witness the harnessing of the atom for the benefit of mankind as the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the N.S. Savannah, sails out upon the high seas; and WHEREAS a strong United States Merchant Marine is essential to the economy and security of the free world; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73), designated May 22 as National 36 USC 145. Maritime Day, in commemoration of the departure from Savannah, Georgia, on May 22, 1819, of the S.S. Savannah on

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