Thanksgiving Day-
1933 By the President of the
United States of America A Proclamation
I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United
States of America, do set aside and appoint Thursday, the thirtieth day of
November 1933, to be a Day of Thanksgiving for all our people.
May we on that day in our churches and in our homes
give humble thanks for the blessings bestowed upon us during the year past by
Almighty God.
May we recall the courage of those who settled a
wilderness, the vision of those who founded the Nation, the steadfastness of
those who in every succeeding generation have fought to keep pure the ideal of
equality of opportunity and hold clear the goal of mutual help in time of
prosperity as in time of adversity.
May we be grateful for the passing of dark days;
for the new spirit of dependence one on another; for the closer unity of all
parts of our wide land; for the greater friendship between employers and those
who toil; for a clearer knowledge by all nations that we seek no conquests and
ask only honorable engagements by all people to respect the lands and rights of
their neighbors; for the brighter day to which we can win through by seeking
the help of God in amore unselfish striving for the bettering of mankind.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this twenty-first
day of November, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-three and
of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
fifty-eighth.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
By the President:
William Phillips,
Acting
Secretary of State.
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