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Show CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL ; COOPERATIVE DAY JULY 4 v i--. The International Cooperative Alliance which represented j. 70 million members of cooperatives in 39 countries before the opening of the World War II, has designated Saturday, July i 4, as the 20th International Cooperative Day. It is expected that fitting celebrat ons of the occasion will be held in all j except occupied countries. j The Alliance in issuing its call for the celebration asked i cooperators everywhere to "remember in silence their fellow cooperators who are now prisoners in their native lands'". It further called on cooperative members everywhere "to dedicate dedi-cate themselves anew to the service of cooperation and to use all their influence to create a public, opinion responsive to the cooperative idea and conducive to a settlement of all social national and international problems in a truly cooperative coope-rative spirit." |