Honors
- United States - Medal for Merit, 1946
- USSR - Order of Lenin
- France Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, May 1950
- Belgium Grand Cordon de l'Ordre de Léopold, Feb 1940
- Awards from the governments of Luxembourg; Greece; Yugoslavia; the Dominican Republic; Peru; Panama; and Mexico.
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