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MALACAÑANG
Manila

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

Proclamation No. 271

DECLARING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 16 TO NOVEMBER 15, 1951, AS THE TIME FOR THE SPECIAL NATION-WIDE CAMPAIGN FOR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT OF CHILDREN IN CONNECTION WITH THE OBSERVANCE OF UNITED NATIONS DAY ON OCTOBER 24, 1951.

WHEREAS, the Philippines happily joins other nations in a common effort to help the millions of children all-over the world who are suffering from lack of food, medicines, clothing, shoes and other necessities;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from October 16 to November 15, 1951, as the time for the special nation-wide campaign for voluntary contributions for the benefit of children in connection with the observance of United Nations Day on October 24, 1951.

I call upon all citizens and residents of the Philippines as well as upon all organizations, to support and facilitate the conduct of this campaign.

I authorize all provincial, city and municipal government officials to accept, for the National Committee for Collection of Contributions for the Benefit of Children, fund-raising responsibilities in their respective communities to the end that the campaign will foe carried out successfully.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 10th day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-one, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the sixth.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

(SGD.)MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Assistant Executive Secretary

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