Proclamation 3774.
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81 Stat. 1091 Proclamation 3774 PAN AMERICAN DAY AND PAN AMERICAN WEEK, 1967 By the President of the United States of America March 31, 1967 A Proclamation There is special meaning this year in the hemispheric tradition of Pan American Day. On April twelfth, for the first time in a decade and the second time in history, the Presidents and Heads of Government of the American nations will meet to fortify the foundation of the house of the Americas. Seventy-seven years ago we first joined our hearts and hands as brothers in a hopeful hemisphere.
We pledged a common pledge—we dreamed a common dream. We have since translated that pledge into progress. And we have founded the Organization of American States as a firm framework for the fulfillment of that dream.[2 UST 2394](/us/ust/t2/s2394). We have recently strengthened that Organization by amending its Charter to meet the challenge that our changing times demand. We have extended our unique experiment in international living by welcoming into our membership the new nation of Trinidad and Tobago.
We have enhanced the meaning of that experiment by forging within it an Alliance for Progress in which our goals for the good life are matched only by our desire to achieve them. And the impressive accomplishments of these last six years trace that desire’s growing satisfaction. When the Alliance was formed in 1961, it was estimated that our Latin American neighbors could supply about 80% of the capital required. In fact, they have done better than this. By the end of this year, the gross investment in Latin America will have totaled over $100 billion—and 95% of it will have been from domestic sources.
This ability of our neighbors to save and invest in their own future is a most striking indication that Latin America can, with relatively modest external help, mobilize the resources needed for its own development—and thus strengthen the foundations of the house we share in this hemisphere. The cooperative spirit of the Alliance is bringing new-found confidence and hope into this house. —Per capita growth rates show that more and more countries are breaking the economic stagnation of earlier years. —Men, women and children are alive today who would otherwise have died.
In ten countries, deaths caused by malaria dropped from 10,810 to 2,280 in three years’ time. Smallpox cases declined almost as sharply. And new health centers and hospitals are growing everywhere. —Men whose fathers for generations toiled on land owned by others are now working it as their own. With U.S. assistance, 1.1 million acres have been irrigated and 106,000 acres reclaimed. 15,000 miles of road have been built or improved, many of them farm-to-market access roads. —For tens of thousands of families, the most fundamental conditions of life are improving. 350,000 housing units have been, 81 Stat. 1092or are now being, constructed.
New and modernized water supply systems have been built to benefit some 20 million people. So as we assemble under the banner of the Alliance for Progress, we are cheered by success and encouraged in the task that lies ahead. With the confidence born of achievement, we know that we can prepare a better world for the new generation of Americans who will come after us. We look to the 60% of Latin America’s 245 million people who are now under the age of 25, and we know that the task of meeting their aspirations is great.
But we also know that we have forged the tools to do the task. And there is promise in what we see. The sustaining arm of education is reaching out to more and more of this strategic 60% of Latin Americans. —Since the Alliance was formed, school enrollments have increased at an average annual rate of over 6%. This rate represents more than twice the rate of increase in the total population. —For each 1,000 inhabitants, there were 124 students enrolled in schools in 1960, 170 in 1965, and 174 in 1966. —28,000 new classrooms have been built. —160,000 teachers have been trained or given additional training. —More than 14 million textbooks have been distributed. —13 million school children and 3 million pre-schoolers participate in school lunch programs.
And more than this, what statistics cannot adequately relay is the emergence of a generation of vigorous, confident and responsible leaders throughout Latin America—leaders who are ready to help their countries help themselves. These leaders are beginning to include more and more women doers in their ranks. And since women comprise over half the population of Latin America, there is new potential in this leadership. The successes scored by the Alliance have been aided by the United States—but they have been realized by the cooperative spirit that resides in the commitment and dedication of the Latin American nations themselves.
Their unrelenting perseverance has been a key-stone in the firm foundation of our house of hemispheric progress. So as together we seek to strengthen—we seek a realistic goal. As together we build to better—we build on solid ground. Bound by geography, born of a common revolutionary heritage, nurtured by common ideals, committed to the dignity of man, and sustained by the youth and vigor that have been our common strength, we will project our traditions into a promising future—and we will prevail.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Friday, April 14, 1967, as Pan American Day, and the week beginning April 9 and ending April 15 as Pan American Week; and I call upon the Governors of the fifty States of the Union, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the officials of all other areas under the flag of the United States to issue similar proclamations. 81 Stat. 1093 Further, I call upon this Nation to rededicate itself to the fundamental goal of the inter-American system, embodied in the Charter of the Organization of American States and in the Charter of Punta del Este: social justice and economic progress within the framework of individual freedom and political liberty.
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 thirty-first day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first. By the President: *Secretary of State* 3775 April 6, 1967 LOYALTY DAY, 1967 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America Proclamation Proclamation 3775 LOYALTY DAY, 1967 By the President of the United States of America April 6, 1967 A Proclamation May 1st, in some parts of the world, is marked by demonstrations in support of totalitarian party dictatorships.
Since 1959, we in the United States have celebrated it as “Loyalty Day,” a time when we are asked to recall the ideals which have nourished our free society. The contrast between these two types of celebration is striking. We are not demanding unthinking fealty to a party or a doctrine. On the contrary, allegiance to American ideals demands commitment to a ceaseless search for new routes to freedom, justice and equality. Our flag then is not just a symbol of our nationhood. It signifies more: —A profound dedication to a community where the rights of minorities are respected as fully as the rights of the majority, where freedom and order are found in harmonious equilibrium.
The patriot leader John Adams thus felt obliged to defend the British officer accused of instigating the “Boston Massacre.” And later noted in his diary that it was his proudest contribution to the tradition of freedom. Similarly, Abraham Lincoln in 1838 called on “every American, every lover of liberty” to swear “never to violate the laws of the country” or to “tolerate their violation by others” through “mob law.” To an American, then, loyalty is not automatic acceptance of authority but consecration to the principles of a free society.
It imposes restraints on the majority and on minorities alike. The majority must have the right to act, but its actions must follow the course of due process. Minorities must retain the right to dissent, but should never confuse the right to be heard with the right to determine policy, should never 81 Stat. 1094assert the undemocratic and arrogant claim to speak for the society as a whole. In 1967, Loyalty Day has a special meaning. Far away in Vietnam, our young men arc demonstrating by their bravery, and commitment to the freedom of others, the ultimate obligations loyalty can impose.
Loyalty Day 1967 thus becomes an opportunity for the vast majority in America—while respecting the right of dissent—to affirm their conviction that freedom is indivisible, their realization that the cruel burden of war must be carried, and their heartfelt gratitude to those who are risking their lives in harsh witness to our ideals. If we are to be worthy of their sacrifice, it is vital that we demonstrate our active loyalty to the cause for which they fight. The badge of American loyalty should be more than a uniform.
Enlightened loyalty requires that each citizen take the trouble to learn about, to discuss, to think through, the crucial issues of our time. Enlightened loyalty demands a commitment by the citizen to the daily life of his society. He must constantly strive to bring American practice into accord with American precepts. Enlightened loyalty obligates every individual to act and speak in behalf of his beliefs, so the world will not mistake the clamor of dissenting activists for the true voice of the nation. [2 UST 2394](/us/ust/t2/s2394).In recognition of these precepts, the Congress by a joint resolution of July 18, 1958 (72 Stat. 369), designated May 1 of each year as Loyalty Day and requested the President to issue a proclamation inviting the people of the United States to observe each such day with appropriate ceremonies.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, LYNDON B. JOHNSON, President of the United States of America, do call upon the people of the United States, and upon all patriotic, civic, and educational organizations, to observe Monday, May 1, 1967, as Loyalty Day, with appropriate ceremonies in which all of us may join in a reaffirmation of our loyalty to the United States of America. I also call upon appropriate officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day as a manifestation of our loyalty to the Nation which that flag symbolizes.
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 sixth day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and sixty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and ninety-first. By the President: *Secretary of State* 3776 April 7, 1967 CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1967 Digitization Vendor By the President of the United States of America Proclamation
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