Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin and of History, was among ten Americans who received the French Legion of Honor in the grade of officer at special ceremonies last night in New York.
Presentations were made by General Maurice Mathenet, military attache to the French Embassy, at the French Cultural Center.
The decorations were made by the French Government in recognition of the Americans' service with the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Division of the Third Army in Europe. This division was devoted to the recovery and return of works of art looted from France by the Germans during the period of occupation from the spring of 1940 till 1944.
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