CHAPTER 882
STATE OF DELAWARE
EXECUTIVE
DEPARTMENT
DOVER
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the
United Nations
Charter was adopted twenty-five years ago on
October 24, 1945, in
the city
of
San
Francisco;
and Whereas, the United
States of Americ
a,
the birthplace
of
the United
Nations, has from
the
beginning
worked with
oth
er
member
nations toward the goals
of preserving
and restoring peace, defending
human rights for
all
races and people
s
,
and
promoting
economic and social
development throughout th
e w
orld;
and Whereas, complex and
difficult
though the task
may be, hope for
the future
of humanity lie
s
in
free
discu
ssion
and peaceful
negotiation of mutual problems
and
difference
s
to
the end that generations to
come may live in
a world free from
the
threat
of
war;
Now,
therefore,
I, Russell W. Peterson, Governor of
the State
of Delaware, do hereby proclaim Saturda
y,
October
24,
1970,
as
UNITED NATIONS DAY
in Del
aware
,
and
urge
all
residents of The Fir
s
t State to
participate in
app
ropriate programs dedicated
to
understanding
and
support
for the
mi
ssi
on of
the
United Nations
in fostering
in
ter
national justice and
order.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, I, Russell W. Peterson
,
Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
said
State
to
be hereunto affixed at Dover
this first
day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
seventy, and
of the Independence of
the
United States of America, the one hundred and ninety-fifth.
(GREAT SEAL)
RUSSELL W. PETERSON,
Governor
Att
est:
EUGENE
BUNTING
,
Secretar
y
of State