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PROCLAMATION 3349—MAY 14, 1960

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our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] sixty, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-fourth. DwiGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: DOUGLAS DILLON,

Acting Secretary of State. UNITED STATES OF AMERICAJAPAN CENTENNIAL YEAR By ^he President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS a special Japanese mission, comprising three principal officers together with nearly seventy subordinates, arrived in Washington on May 14, 1860, presented credentials to President Buchanan on May 17, exchanged the ratifications of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858 on May 22, took leave of the President on June 5, and sailed from New York for Japan on June 30, 1860; and WHEREAS the visit of this mission to the United States, which was an act of reciprocity for the missions of Matthew C. Perry and Townsend Harris to Japan, provided an auspicious introduction of Japanese officials to this country; and WHEREAS the year 1960 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the first Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States; and WHEREAS in signing the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security on January 19, 1960, the two nations have envisaged a lasting partnership based on equality and on mutual interest and understanding; and WHEREAS both Governments look forward to the celebration of this year as the centennial of reciprocal United States-Japanese diplomatic relations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim

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