[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 148 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
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Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 6709--
50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising


                        Presidential Documents 


Federal Register
Vol. 59, No. 148
Wednesday, August 3, 1994

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Title 3--
The President
                Proclamation 6709 of August 1, 1994

 
50th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                On this day of remembrance, we pause together to recall 
                the brutal path that has led to the triumph of freedom 
                in Poland. We remember the brave men and women of the 
                Polish Home Army who stood on the front lines of combat 
                as their city was destroyed. We recall the children of 
                Warsaw who braved sniper fire to deliver messages for 
                the Resistance. We hold in our hearts the spirits of 
                those who lost their lives. We grieve with their 
                survivors. We speak to one another of those bloody days 
                so that we may never know that sorrow again.

                A half-century ago, the residents of Warsaw, Poland, 
                could scarcely imagine that their city would restore 
                its playgrounds for children or its gardens for 
                flowers. For 63 monstrous days of Nazi aggression, it 
                seemed impossible that a Polish arsenal stockpiled with 
                courage, faith, and solidarity could prevail against 
                the tanks, machine guns, and bombers of Hitler's 
                tyranny. But since that time, when it seemed 
                unfathomable to the valiant citizens of Warsaw that 
                they would ever recapture freedom's light, the people 
                of Poland have emerged victorious. Fifty years later, 
                the weapons of Nazi terror are lost to history. 
                Solidarity inspires us still.

                Warsaw has earned the flowers that grace it today. 
                Though battered by the chaos of the second World War 
                and stifled by the strictures of the Cold War, the 
                people of Poland have continued to rebuild their 
                beloved capital. Brick by brick, building by building, 
                the beauty and majesty that defined Warsaw for 
                centuries are being reborn to a generation of Poles who 
                have just recently discovered the blessings of freedom.

                The courage and hope that carried their parents and 
                grandparents through the darkest days of the 1944 
                uprising remain. The legacy of that battle stirs 
                today's residents to embrace the challenges of liberty. 
                And on the strength of that tradition, democracy now 
                thrives in Warsaw.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim August 1, 1994, as the 50th 
                Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising. I call upon the 
                people of the United States to observe this day with 
                appropriate ceremonies and activities.

                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                first day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen 
                hundred and ninety-four, and of the Independence of the 
                United States of America the two hundred and 
                nineteenth.

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[FR Doc. 94-19093
Filed 8-2-94; 8:56 am]
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