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Citation for the Legion of Merit for General Charles de Gaulle
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CITATION FOR THE LEGION OF MERIT
Degree of Chief Commander
General Charles de Gaulle, President
of the Provisional Government of the French Republic
and Commander-in-Chief of France's armed forces,
performed distinguished services by maintaining
his nation's effort in the struggle ageinst the
common enemy in Europe, From the chaos which
followed the unleashing of the aggressor states'
military power he emerged to keep bright the flame
of liberty among his coutrymen, to relly them in
the cause of freedom, to merge their revived strength
with the growing might of the United Nations. In
victory he returned to his native soil, there to
rebuild on firm principles a nation rededicated to
liberty, equalit ty and fraternity.
TRUMAN,
ERCHIVES INTIANATIONAL REDORDS AND of
SERVICE"
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