WHEREAS, there exists an urgent need for the Philippine Government to project effectively our culture and export products to the attention of foreign nations;

WHEREAS, the Philippine Government, through the Department of Commerce and Industry, has committed itself to participate in the New York World ™s Fair covering culture, education, art, science, entertainment, commerce, and industry, which will be held in New York, U.S.A., for a period of two years from April 21 to October 18, 1964, and from April 21 to October 17, 1965, and adequate budgetary provision is prerequisite for the success of this joint undertaking of the government and the private sector;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare the period from April 1, 1963, to January 81, 1964, as the New York World ™s Fair Fund Drive. The drive shall be under the joint auspices of the Department of Commerce and Industry, the Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and the Philippine Chamber of Industries. I call on all business enterprises throughout the Philippines, including government entities, to extend their unstinted support and cooperation and to contribute generously to this laudable project in order that Philippine participation in the world exposition may be a success, redounding to the expansion and promotion of our foreign trade and to the development of our national economy.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 8th day of April, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
SALVADOR L. MARI O
Executive Secretary