The directors of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, at their annual meeting yesterday, voted to confer on Thomas G. Masaryk president of the Czechoslovakian Republic, its medal which hasn’t been awarded since 1929.
The medal, a bronze plaque, fifteen inches in diameter and designed by Ivan Mestrovic, has been conferred in the past on Viscount Cecil, Elihu Root, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, and the League of Nations, Geneva, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary.
At the same time money awards were made to The Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science (the University in Exile), the National League of Women Voters, Washington, D. C., and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Washington, D. C. The first named organization received $4,000; and each of the others, $3,000. In addition, a contribution of $5,000 was made to the League of Nations Association, to be used in its discretion for the furtherance of its educational work.
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