WHEREAS, aviation plays an important role in promoting the progress and insuring the security of the nation; and

WHEREAS, it is desirable that a widespread interest in aviation be aroused among our people;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Eipidio Quirino President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby designate the period from December 12 to 18, 1948, as Aviation Week, and enjoin all government officials and employees and all citizens of j the Philippines to lend their full cooperation in the observance of this week.

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 19th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-eight, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the third.

ELPIDIO QUIRINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:

TEODORO EVANGELISTA
Executive Secretary