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+ ORPES Spe Pe SP a ay TE saa natin titaall RO eed Ebebibeigs Bo iF ‘Cuba Honors Hoover the rvenin Stay meee c. (4d For Work of Defeating | ‘Activities of Spies | Ambassador Presents ' Order of Police Merit To FBI Director Tiie Cuban govermnient yesterday conferred upon FBI Directo J. Ed- gar Heover, its highest law eniorce- “ |ment monor—the “Order of Police | Merit." The médal was presented in be- half of President Pulgencio Batista and Gen. Manue! Benitez, chief of. the Cuban National Police, by Am-— bassacor Aurello F. Concheso. The presentation of the medal, which was brought to Washington by Capt. Oscar Gutierrez of the Cuban National Police, was made in Mr. Hoover's office in the Justice De- partment. a The Ambassador sald that tne medal was awarded to Mr. Hoover in reccgnilion of his ‘‘able co-opera- tion in the prosecution of espionage and other enemy activities.” ' In accepting the award Mr, Hoo- ;¥er said thar he looked with pride “tina the suirit af friendship and co-gpliation that exlsts between the ‘Cuhan Nitional Police and the Fed- eral Buresu of Investigation.” | “Already the common under- istanding acd the jolnt efforts of our two organisations have forged a | eh: ain of protection againss the Axis ‘forces that would raid and disturb the peace of the Americas,” he de- elared. “What has been accomplished in | the past is only a forerunner of what we can expect in the future in maintaining the security of our two; countries.”