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Proclamation 3165—United States World Fair

November 16, 1956


By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Whereas the United States World Trade Fair is to be held at New York, New York, from April 14 to April 27, 1957, inclusive, for the purposes of exhibition, promotion, and sale of foreign products and services to the American trade and to the public; and

Whereas the Congress, by a joint resolution approved July 27, 1956, has authorized the President of the United States of America, by proclamation or in such other manner as he may deem proper, to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in such United States World Trade Fair; and

Whereas the participation by the States of the Union and foreign countries in the United States World Trade Fair will promote foreign and domestic commerce and will serve as a means of fostering good will among nations:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the United States World Trade Fair to be held in the Coliseum in New York, New York, from April 14 to April 27, 1957, inclusive.

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 sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first.

Signature of Dwight D. Eisenhower

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

HERBERT HOOVER, Jr.,

Acting Secretary of State

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Proclamation 3165—United States World Fair Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/307473

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