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Helland Meda! for Service to FBI Chief Special to The Chicago Herald- American. NEW YORK. Nov. 20-+J._ Ed- gar Hooverf director of the Fed-— efal BuFéhu of Investigation. to- day holds the gold medal of the Holland Society for distinguished Puulic service, ‘The sward was Made at the 58th annual banquet of the organiza- tion last night and marked Mr. Hoover’s 25tn year with the FBI. The citation was read by Harold ©. Voorhis, chRirman of the Hol- land Society secretary of New York University. of the rat and declared he had built the finest jaw enforcement agency the world has ever known through carefully selected and well trained persunnel, strategie organ- ization, fine equigment and sci- entitle technique. WAENING BY HOOVER, FBI's chief in his acceptance Warned against & breakdown of the home and tts teachings by a wartime spirit that “has resulted in a hig increase in crime by the youth of the nation.” James W. Gerard, former am- bassador to Germany, addressing the meeting, told his Nsteners that with American and British troops holding part of North Africa and driving toward complete occupa- tion of the African Mediterranean coast, Hiller must defend the Jong atretch of coast from the Pyrenees almost to the gates of Istanbul. | Discussing post-war treatment’ of Germany, Gerard suggested ‘a Danubian etnpire, a federal state with a king or emperor at its head.” BEES A “U. 8. OF EUROPE.” Gerard envisioned a league to include the separate states com- posed of Czechs, Slavs, Croats, the Hungarians and Austrians—“all eeparate states, having like us 4 common customs frontier, a com- mon cainage, representatives elected according tc population and two senators from each state.” “Another Balkan league,” he said, “might include Rumania and! Jugoslavia, with Bulgaria ab-|/ aarbed by Jugoslavig. Hoover also touched on the North African campaign, assert- ing “It surely marks the turning point in the war, but jistatles.to- d=>-are_not enough for we nave just berun to fight. | & Yt is the days and weeks and months shead that will seunt. Hitler cannot possibly step our ecembined strength.” aui . e Meats ig vee wey, a. Hendag_ oer [rir CHICAGO AMERICAN Jf go fy