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CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS-MAR. 17, 1954
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on Ways and Means for the use of the following: House Document Room, thirteen thousand copies; Senate Document Room, one thousand seven hundred copies; House Committee on Ways and Means, five thousand copies; Senate Committee on Finance, three hundred copies. P a s s e d March 10, 1954. March 17, 1954 [S. Con. R e s. 57] Printing of p r oceedings, etc.
March 19, 1954 [S. Con. R e s. 63]
STATUE O F MARCUS WHITMAN
Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring) That there be printed with illustrations and bound, in such style as may be directed by the Joint Committee on Printing, the proceedings in Congress at the unveiling in the rotunda, together with such other matter as the joint committee may deem pertinent thereto, upon the occasion of the acceptance of the statue of Marcus Whitman, presented by the State of Washington, five thousand copies; of which two thousand copies shall be for the use of the Senate, and for the use and distribution by the Senators from Washington; and the remaining three thousand copies shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, and for the use of and the distribution by the Representatives in Congress from the State of Washington. SEC. 2. The Joint Committee on Printing is hereby authorized to have the copy prepared for the Public Printer, who shall provide suitable illustrations to pe bound with these proceedings. Agreed to March 17, 1954.
PRAYERS FOR DELIVERANCE OF THOSE BEHIND IRON CURTAIN
Whereas our country has, from its beginning, been inspired by God and its citizens throughout its history have sought His divine guidance; and Whereas the dictatorship of communism is based upon atheism and directed toward the complete destruction of all religious worship; and Whereas this atheistic dictatorship has subjected religious leaders and their congregations to barbaric persecutions such as the world has not seen for nearly two thousand years, as exemplified in Hungary by the torture of Cardinal Mindszenty and Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass, in Poland by the incarceration of Cardinal Wyszynski, in Yugoslavia by the imprisonment of Archbishop Stepinac, in Bulgaria by the oppression of Protestant ministers, and by the persecution of Jews throughout the area dominated by communism; and Whereas millions of worshipers behind the Iron Curtain are prevented by force and violence from the free exercise of their religious beliefs and rituals: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate {the House of Representatives concurring)^ l l i a t the Congress respectfully suggests that the churches and synagogues of America set aside a portion of their services on Easter Sunday and on the first day of Passover in 1954, both of which fall on April 18, for special prayers for the deliverance of all those behind the Iron Curtain who are denied freedom to worship in their own way. Agreed to March 19, 1954.
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