In order that the people may appreciate fully the vital role of the press in our community and national life, I, Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from February fifteenth to twenty-first of each year as National Press Week.

I hereby enjoin all the people of the Philippines to lend their full support and cooperation in the proper observance of National Press Week to the end that the press shall continue to be free, militant and fearless in upholding the people ™s rights.

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 3rd day of February, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the seventh.

ELPIDIO QURINO
President of the Philippines

By the President:
MARCIANO ROQUE
Acting Executive Secretary