Tonight, this company--this Capital--this country--is honored by the presence at this board of the Head of the Turkish Republic.

He had a dream that with a band of devoted associates they translated into reality--by service, unselfish and dedicated service, to their country.

Now the great Ataturk is dead, but his work lives on, and our guest of honor this evening is one of the original band that worked with him to bring about this great change, and to make Turkey the nation she is today: great, and growing…

We gladly seize the opportunity afforded us by his presence, to salute a nation which is one of the most gallant and staunchest defenders of freedom in the modern world.

Our guest of honor, since that day in 1923, has been almost continuously in the Assembly of his country.

It is ordered that all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the above-described lands be, and they are hereby, transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture for use, administration, and disposition.

The building of new homes provides only a partial solution to the housing problem.

I also call upon my fellow citizens not only to display the flag of the United States on Armed Forces Day, but also to manifest their recognition of the sacrifice and devotion to duty of the men and women of the armed forces by attending…

It is not enough, therefore, to rehabilitate homes in obsolete neighborhoods.

I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America and Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, do hereby proclaim Saturday, May 15, 1954, as Armed Forces Day;

Our housing deficiencies continue to be serious.

I believe that this message offers the means whereby our Nation may provide more and better homes for our families.

We must eliminate the causes of slums and blight.

I am anxious that Executive Departments and Agencies with responsibilities in the area of foreign economic policy proceed immediately with an intensive review of this report as a first step in the formulation of a unified Administration…

I am confident that, on the basis of the Report, it will be possible to develop a program that will advance the best interests both of the United States and of the free world.

WITH THIS MEMORANDUM, I am transmitting a copy of the Report to the President and the Congress by the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by subsection (f) of section 514 of the Officer Personnel Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 906), as amended (10 U. S. C. 941a), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:

I therefore request that each of you give the fullest cooperation to the Chairman, Mr. Edward F. Bartelt, Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in the work of the Committee.