Proclamation 3283—United Nations Day, 1959

Whereas the United Nations is identified with the profound hope of the world's peoples that they might live together in peace, resolving their differences in the spirit of conciliation and equity, and freely pursuing their just aspirations for material and social progress; and

Whereas the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies have responded to that hope by achieving peaceful solutions to matters of international dispute, by promoting the rule of world law, and by effectively joining in man's struggle against hunger, poverty, ignorance, and fear; and

Whereas the people of the United States of America are steadfastly working for the eventual fulfillment of the goals of the United Nations as expressed in its Charter; and

Whereas the General Assembly of the United Nations has resolved that October twenty-fourth, the anniversary of the coming into force of the United Nations Charter, should be dedicated each year to making known the purposes, principles, and accomplishments of the United Nations:

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby urge the citizens of this Nation to observe Saturday, October 24, 1959, as United Nations Day by means of community programs which will demonstrate their faith in the United Nations and contribute to a better understanding of its aims, problems, and achievements.

I also call upon the officials of the Federal and State Governments and upon local officials to encourage citizen groups and agencies of the press, radio, television, and motion pictures to engage in appropriate observance of United Nations Day throughout the land in cooperation with the United States Committee for the United Nations.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal cf the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this eighteenth day of April 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:

ROBERT MURPHY,

Acting Secretary of State