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36 USC 161.

PROCLAMATION 3523-MAR. 4, 1963

[77 STAT.

WHEREAS this healthful outdoor activity can be enhanced and loss of life and property reduced by adherence to safe boating principles; and WHEREAS the Congress of the United States, in recognition of the importance of such safe boating practices, by a joint resolution, approved June 4, 1958 (72 Stat. 179), has requested the President to proclaim annually the week that includes the Fourth of July as National Safe Boating Week: NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, P E E S I D E N T O F THE UNITED STATES O F AMERICA, do hereby designate the week beginning June 30, 1963, as National Safe Boating Week, I n pursuance of the objectives of this Proclamation, I urge all persons, organizations, and Governmental agencies interested in recreational boating and safety afloat to publicize and observe National Safe Boating Week. I also invite the Governors of the States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Eico, and other areas subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to join in this observance. 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 26th day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-seventh. JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President: DEAN E U S K,

Secretary of State. Proclamation 3523 THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING March 4, 1963

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

Of the more than 400,000 Jews whom the Nazis had previously walled into the Warsaw Ghetto, only about 70,000 remained in April of 1943. With deadly efficiency, most of the other inhabitants had been transported by the Nazis to concentration camps and had there been exterminated. The surviving Jews, suffering from malnutrition and disease, with pitifully few weapons and virtually no hope of assistance from any source, determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible. They engaged the Nazis in battle. The result was known by the Jews to be foredoomed. Yet, though they lacked both military resources and a military tradition, they were able to conduct their struggle against the overwhelming forces of the Nazi occupiers for more than three weeks, thereby providing a chapter in the annals of human heroism, an inspiration to the peace-loving people of the world and a warning to would-be oppressors which will long be remembered. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN F. KENNEDY, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of Congress approved August 28, 1962 (76 Stat. 407), do hereby invite the people of the United States to observe the twentieth anniversary

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