Kopia av tackbrev för fångutväxlingsresorna under och efter anda världskriget

1942 - 1949

papper, trä, glas

Grundmått 29,50 x 42,50 cm Rammått 31,00 x 44,50 cm

SMG44326

Fotokopia av 'Testimonial'' samt bild av Gripsholm under en Amerikansk flagga. Testimonial. The M. V. Gripsholm, while under charter to the United States Governent from May 1942 to April 1946 anchored herself securely in the pages of the history of humanity by her eleven voyages across war-tossed seas to succor form prison and hospital the thousands of civilians, and sick and wounded combatants, whom she carried safely to their homes again. For the gallant and self-sacrificing men and women of the Gripsholm, to whose services of mercy the return to happiness and health of these thousands of rescued are forever indebted, the assuring name 'Gripsholm' will stand in the memory of mankind as the symbol of their deeds well done, and of their dauntless spririt. On behalf of the Government of the United States I take pleasure in attesting the abiding gratitude of America to Gripsholm and her complement. Done at the City of Washington this twenty.seventh day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundered and forty-six and of the Independencd of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-first. James ? Secretary of State