GENERAL DAWES
RECEIVES FREEDOM OF SUDBURY
(British Official Wireless.) Rugby, October 1. (Xneral Dawes, American Ambassador, to-day received the freedom of Sudbury, in Suffolk, whence his ancestor, William Dawes, emigrated to America 300 years ago with other Puritans.
The scroll of freedom, which was enclosed in an casket of old British oak, recalled General Dawes’s ancestral connection with the borough and mentioned his services to the causi of peace and disarmament to which he had wholeheartedly devoted his life. General Dawes, in acknowledgment, mentioned there was the record of an English Daw.es fighting aganst an American Dawes during the American War of Independence. All that, however. was passed. The two countries were now together fighting a battle for world peace.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 7, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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120GENERAL DAWES Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 7, 3 October 1929, Page 11
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