Mayor of Dunkirk Receives French Legion of Honor

Close on the heels of the announcement that Freedom House had awarded a citation to the city of Dunkirk for its effort toward world peace came notification Monday that Mayor Walter F. Murray of Dunkirk had been nominated chevalier in the French Legion of Honor.

The honor was reported in a letter received by the mayor from Henri Bonnet, French ambassador to the United States. The award was made, according to Mr. Bonnet, �as a token of gratitude for the eminent services that you and the people of Dunkirk have rendered to France, and particularly to the City of Dunkerque.�

On Thanksgiving Day, Dunkirk held a Dunkirk-to-Dunkerque Day during which gifts valued at more than $75,000 for the people of the war-torn French city were turned over to Ambassador Bonnet and other French officials who were present for the occasion.


31 July 1947
The Fredonia Censor