Proclamation 3754—Educational and Cultural Materials

Whereas Section 2 of the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966, approved October 14, 1966 (Public Law 89-651), provides that the Act shall become effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after a date proclaimed by the President, which date shall be within a period of three months after the date on which the United States instrument of ratification of the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific and Cultural Materials (commonly referred to as the Florence Agreement) shall have been deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations; and

Whereas such instrument of ratification was deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on November 2, 1966:

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, including Section 2 of the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966, do proclaim that that Act shall become effective with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after February 1, 1967.

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 third day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

By the President:

NICHOLAS DEB. KATZENBACH

Acting Secretary of State