Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America and President of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate and proclaim the month of March 1947 as Red Cross Month and urge every citizen of this country to respond generously to this essential, humanitarian cause.
Proclamation 2716—Red Cross Month, 1947
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