Proclamation No. 8, s. 1945

MALACANAN PALACE MANILA

• FROCLAMLLTION No. 8

DESIGNATING SUNDAY, THE THIRTEENTH DaY OF MAY, NINE TERN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVe, aS A DAY OF NaTIONAL PRAYIR,

I, Sergio Osmefia, President of the Philippines, do

hereby publish the following proclamation issued today by the President of the United States setting aside Sunday, May thirteenth, Nineteen hundred and forty-five, to be a

day of prayer: "BY THE PRESTDRNT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERIOA TA Proclamation

"The Allisd Armies, throtgh sacrifice and devotion and with God's help, have won from Germany a final and unconditional surrender. The Western world has been freed of the evil forces which for five years and longer have imprisoned the bodied and broken the lives of millions upon millions of free-born Hen. Ghey have violated their churches, destroyed their homes, corrupted their chilaren and murdered their loved ones. Our armies of liberation have restored freedom to these suffering peoples, whose spirit and will the oppressors could never enslave.

twuch remains to be done. The victory won in the West mist now be won in the Bast. The whole world must be cleared of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United, the peace-loving nations have demonstrated in the West that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military cliques that once called us soft and weak. The power of our peoples to defend ourselves against all enemies will be proved in the Pacific as it has been proved in Hurope.

tor the triumph of spirit and of arms woich we have won, and for its promise to peoples everywhere who join us in the Love of freedom, it is fitting that we, as a nation, give thanks to Almighty God, Who has strengthened us and given us victory.

"Yow, therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby appoint Sunday, May

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thirteenth, nineteen hundred and forty-five, vo be a day

"ZT call upon the people of the United States, whatever their faith, to unite in offering joyful thanks to God for the victory we have won and to pray that He will support us to the end of our present struggle and guide us into the way of peace.

"I also call upon my countrymen to dedicate this day of prayer to the memory of those who have given their lives to make possible our victory.

#In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be © affixed.

mDone ut the City of Washington this eighth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty- five, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth.

wEHARRY S. TRUEAN

"By the President:

VEDIARD R. STETYINIUS, Jr. Raoting Secretary of State"

tt ig only fitting that the aey be also observed in ;

the Philippines as in the United States and I do hereby

enjoin the inhabitants of the Philippines to offer thanks

to the Almighty God for the victory achieved and pray for

His inspiration and guiaance so that the war in the Pacific

may be won as in the West, and may guice us through the

path of justices, peace and lasting security.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and

cause the seal of the Commonwealth of the Philippines to

be

pe affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five

and of the Commonwealth of the Philippines the tenth.

President of the Philippines

By the President:

JOSz &. REYES Secretary to the President