Proclamation 3276—Pan American Day and Pan America Week, 1959

Whereas on April 14, 1959, the twenty-one American Republics will celebrate and commemorate the sixty-ninth anniversary of the founding of an organization for inter-American cooperation, now known as the Organization of American States; and

Whereas the solidarity of the American Republics in support of the ideals of a just peace, freedom, and human progress demonstrates to the rest of mankind the beneficial results of friendship among nations; and

Whereas the good will and cooperation among the peoples of the Americas have yielded increasing benefits of a material and spiritual nature to all:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, April 14, 1959, as Pan American Day, and the period from April 12 to April 18, 1959, as Pan American Week; and I invite the Governors of the States and possessions of the United States of America, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Governor of the Territory of Hawaii to issue similar proclamations.

I also urge our citizens and all interested organizations to join in the appropriate observance of Pan American. Day and Pan American Week, in testimony of the steadfast friendship which unites the people of the United States with the peoples of the other American Republics.

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 twenty-fifth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-nine and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-third.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

By the President:

CHRISTIAN A. HERTER,

Acting Secretary of State