Religion: Day Set Aside

In measured, prayerful words, the President proclaimed Jan. 1, 1944 a "day of prayer to give thanks to Almighty God for His constant providence over us in every hour of national peace and national peril.. . . May we humbly seek strength and guidance for the problems of widening warfare and for the responsibilities of increasing victory."

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