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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 19, 1947
PAN AMERICAN WEEK, 1947
2720
BY THE PRESIDENT CF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
A PROCLANATION
WHEREAS the Pan American Union was founded on April 14,
1890, to serve the cause of mutual understanding and cooperation
among the nations of the Western Hemisphere; and
WHEREAS the inspiration and example furnished by the
resulting peaceful collaboration of the American republics have
contributed to the development of world-wide international
collaboration through the United Nations for the welfare and
security of all peoples everywhere; and
WHEREAS the /Inter-American System that has developed
around the Pan American Union will be further strengthened at
the Ninth International Conference of American States to be
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held at Bogota, Colombia, in December of this year; and
WHEREAS it is fitting that the people of the United States
should testify to the spirit of good neighborliness which binds
them to the peoples of the other American republics and should
take note of the mutual advantages to be gained through develop-
ment of even closer cultural and commercial relations:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the
United States of America, do hereby designate and proclaim the
week beginning April 13, 1947, as Pan American Week; and I call
upon the officials of the Government to display the flag of the
United States on all public buildings during that week.
I also invite the several States, Territories, and
possessions of the United States, through their appropriate
officials, and the churches, schools, clubs, and other organ-
izations, as well as the people of the United States generally,
to participate in the observance of Pan American Week with
suitable commemorative displays, exhibits, and ceremonies,
or other activities.
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 seventeenth day of
March in the year of our
Lord nineteen hundred and
(SEAL)
forty-seven, and of the
Independence of the United
States of America the one
hundred and seventy-first.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
By the President:
DEAN ACHESON
Acting Secretary of State.