Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon Commander Savage, King Albert pinned the Order of Leopold I, commander's rank (equivalent of commanderhood in the Legion d'Honneur, which Commander Savage already possessed...
...tell you how pleased I am about your O. M. [Order of Merit]. Of course it in no way represents your services in this War, for, let me tell you in case you don't know it, you, more than any other man, living or dead, you almost alone, won this war. That is the bare truth, the whole truth...
Precisely why the work had ever been stopped was obscured in a fog of misunderstanding. Mr. Warren was under, the impression that a cessation had been ordered by Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, acting for the Carnegie Endowment, one of the chief contributors to the U. S. fund for the reconstruction of the Library. But Dr. Butler denied that he had ordered the work to stop, pointed out that he had no power so to order...
...Warren's order for the immediate resumption of work goes in the teeth of German protests against monuments of this type. Only recently the Berlin Government made unofficial representations against a War memorial at Dinant, Belgium, depicting a German soldier holding above his head a baby speared on a bayonet. Nevertheless, Mr. Warren said that his action in regard to the Louvain Library reflected the sentiments of most of the population of Louvain...
...call this to the attention of the pastors and the people of the Archdiocese in order that this revolting experience will not be repeated. Any organist or choir director allowing such a stupid performance in the future will be immediately suspended or discharged...