Proclamation 3177—World Trade Week, 1957

Whereas exports and imports are important to our economic strength and to the well-being of our people; and

Whereas international commerce in all its aspects—trade, travel and investment—is beneficial to the community of nations and conducive to the establishment of a just and lasting peace in the world; and

Whereas our national trade policy, which seeks to promote the continued growth of mutually profitable world trade, contributes both to our prosperity and to our national security:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 19, 1957, as World Trade Week; and I request the appropriate officials of the Federal Government and of the several States, Territories, possessions, and municipalities of the United States to cooperate in the observance of that week.

I also urge business, labor, agricultural, educational, and civic groups, as well as the people of the United States generally, to observe World Trade Week with gatherings, discussions, exhibits, ceremonies, and other activities designed to promote a greater awareness of the importance of world trade to our domestic economy and to the strength of the free world.

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 8th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary of State