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PROCLAMATION 3594-JUNE 18, 1964

[78 STAT.

Proclamation 3594 CAPTIVE NATIONS WEEK, 1964 June 18, 1964

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS the joint resolution approved July 17, 1959 (73 Stat. 212) authorizes and requests the President of the United States of America to issue a proclamation each year designating the third week in July as "Captive Nations Week" until such time as freedom and independence shall have been achieved for all the captive nations of the world; and WHEREAS the cause of human rights and personal dignity remains a universal aspiration; and WHEREAS this nation ^s firmly committed to the cause of freedom and justice everywhere; and WHEREAS it is appropriate and proper to manifest to the people of the captive nations the support of the Government and the people of the United States of America for their just aspirations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning July 12, 1964, as Captive Nations Week. I invite the people of the United States of America to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities, and I urge them to give renewed devotion to the just aspirations of all people for national independence and human liberty. 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 eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-four, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-eighth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: DEAN RUSK,

Secretary

of

State.

Proclamation 3595 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1964 July 6, 1964

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation

WHEREAS fires, most of which could have been prevented, caused the loss of approximately 12,000 human lives and destroyed over a billion dollars worth of property in 1963; and WHEREAS this shameful waste of human and material resources demands immediate community action to reduce this scourge to an irreducible minimum; and WHEREAS far too many fires are caused solely by the carelessness and apathy of individual citizens:

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