Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator of San Martin
Date
2011-06-15
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
Abstract
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Certificate stored in Map case 5-5. Medals with case are in Safe. Medal presented to Messersmith by President Perón on the occasion of Messersmith's resignation from the post of Ambassador to Argentina in 1947. Copies of a memorandum transmitted from Buenos Aires to Washington detail UP press reports of Messesmith's resignation and the subsquent award of the medal. This can be found among the news clippings in these papers.
Keywords
Messersmith, George S. (George Strausser), 1883-1960.