GENERAL DAWES
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BUGBY, Ist October.
General Dawes, the American Ambassador, to-day received the freedom of Sudbury, in Suffolk, whence his ancestor, William Dawes, emigrated to America, three hundred years ago with other Puritans.
The scroll of freedom, which wa3 enclosed in a casket of old British oak, recalled General Dawcs's ancestral connection with the borough and mentioned Ms services to the cause of peace and disarmament to which he had whole-heartedly devoted his life.
General Dawes, in acknowledgment, mentioned there was the record of an English Dawes fighting against an American Dawes during the American War of Independence. All that, however, was passed. Tho' two countries were now together fighting a battle for world peace. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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123GENERAL DAWES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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