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COOLIDGE, Calvin. Printed document signed ("Calvin Coolidge"), as President, a Thanksgiving Proclamation, Washington, 5 November 1923. 1 page, folio.
A POIGNANT THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION CELEBRATING U. S. AND JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP "AS A GUARANTEE OF WORLD PEACE" IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TOKYO EARTHQUAKE
The year 1923 "has brought to our people two tragic experiences," Coolidge says in this Thanksgiving Proclamation. One was "the death of our beloved President Harding," and the other was the "unparalleled disaster to the friendly people of Japan. This called forth from the people of the United States a demonstration of deep humane feeling. It was wrought into the substance of good works. It created new evidences of our international friendship, which is a guarantee of world peace. It replenished the charitable impulse of the country." Coolidge closes his Proclamation with some thoughtful sentiments: "We will do well then to render thanks for the good that has come to us, and how by our actions that we have become stronger, wiser, and truer by the chastenings which have been imposed upon us. We will thus prepare ourselves for the part we must take in a world which forever need the full measure of service. We have been a most favored people. We ought to be a most generous people. We have been a most blessed people. We ought to be a most thankful people."
A POIGNANT THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION CELEBRATING U. S. AND JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP "AS A GUARANTEE OF WORLD PEACE" IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TOKYO EARTHQUAKE
The year 1923 "has brought to our people two tragic experiences," Coolidge says in this Thanksgiving Proclamation. One was "the death of our beloved President Harding," and the other was the "unparalleled disaster to the friendly people of Japan. This called forth from the people of the United States a demonstration of deep humane feeling. It was wrought into the substance of good works. It created new evidences of our international friendship, which is a guarantee of world peace. It replenished the charitable impulse of the country." Coolidge closes his Proclamation with some thoughtful sentiments: "We will do well then to render thanks for the good that has come to us, and how by our actions that we have become stronger, wiser, and truer by the chastenings which have been imposed upon us. We will thus prepare ourselves for the part we must take in a world which forever need the full measure of service. We have been a most favored people. We ought to be a most generous people. We have been a most blessed people. We ought to be a most thankful people."