Proclamation 3465—Voluntary Overseas Aid Week

Whereas United States voluntary agencies have given needed assistance and promoted social and economic development efforts over a large area of the world; and

Whereas the Government of the United States and its people have endorsed and supported the humanitarian efforts of these agencies which now reach needy persons in over one hundred nations; and

Whereas people-to-people assistance, an invaluable supplement to our governmental overseas assistance efforts, is a reflection of American good will and of our belief in human dignity; and

Whereas the Congress, by Senate Concurrent Resolution 61, agreed to April 4, 1962, has requested the President to issue a proclamation designating the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week:

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of April 9, 1962, as Voluntary Overseas Aid Week.

I request the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government, and I urge all our people, to observe that week with activities designed to focus attention on the efforts of our voluntary agencies to assist other peoples.

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 ninth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-sixth.

JOHN F. KENNEDY

By the President:

DEAN RUSK,

Secretary of State