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PROCLAMATION 3637-FEB. 5, 1965

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International Committee of the Red Cross, has furnished voluntary aid to the sick and wounded of armies in time of war and has protected prisoners of war; and WHEREAS the United States of America, as an adherent to the Red Cross Treaty of Geneva, is itself a member of the International Red Cross family of nations: NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America and Honorary Chairman of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate March 1965 as Red Cross Month; and I urgently request every American to honor the American Red Cross, to his fullest capacity, by participating in and supporting its programs. 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 28th day of January in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-five, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-ninth. LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President: GEORGE W. BALL,

Acting Secretary

of State.

Proclamation 3637 IMMIGRATION QUOTAS February 5, 1965

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8 USC 1151.

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By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation WHEREAS under the provisions of Section 202(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, each independent country, self-governing dominion, mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship system of the United Nations, other than independent countries of North, Central, and South America, is entitled to be treated as a separate quota area when approved by the Secretary of State; and WHEREAS under the provisions of Section 201(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to determine the annual quota of any quota area established pursuant to the provisions of Section 202(a) of the said Act, and to report to the President the quota of each quota area so determined; and WHEREAS under the provisions of Section 202(e) of the said Act, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, are required to revise the quotas, whenever necessary, to provide for any political changes requiring a change in the list of quota areas; and WHEREAS on September 21, 1964, the former British dependency of Malta was granted independence by the Government of the United Kingdom; and WHEREAS on October 24, 1964, the former British Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia was granted independence by the Government of the United Kingdom and became the Republic of Zambia; and

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