Oswald Chew

Oswald Chew (March 24, 1880 — December 6, 1949) was an American lawyer,[1] decorated Legion of honor and active in the US for de Gaulle against Vichy.

Oswald Chew was born on 24 May 1880, in Pennsylvania, to Samuel Chew and Mary Johnson Brown.

Around 1895, he married Ada Caroline Knowlton,[2] in Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts.[3]

Chew was awarded Croix de Guerre after WWI in 1917 and Legion of honor[4] in 1925.

Chew served with Commission for Relief in Belgium, drove ambulance in France, and was liaison officer in France. He practiced law in Pennsylvania.[2]

He authored: in 1925, France Courageous and Indomitable;[5] in 1928: La question des dettes inter-alliées études réunies et publiées en Amerique en 1928, sous le titre The stroke of the moment. [The question of inter-allied debts studies collected and published in America in 1928, under the title The stroke of the moment];[6] in 1933: Now is the Time to Abolish the War Debts...[7] and on June 16, 1932 wrote in the New York Times about the matter.[8] In 1940 he authored: For a Better World Tomorrow.[9]

Chew was a founding member of France Forever.[4][10][11]

Chew died on 6 December 1949, in Radnor Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 "OSWALD CHEW, 69, LAWYER 42 YEARS; Member of the Belgian Relief Group in '16 Dies--Headed Franco-American Institute". The New York Times. 1949-12-07. p. 31.
  2. 1 2 of 1897, Smith College Class (1922). Ninety-seven's Quarter Century Book, June, 1922. Commonwealth Press, printers.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  3. 1 2 "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  4. 1 2 Congress, United States (1941). Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 344.
  5. ↑ Chew, Oswald (1925). France Courageous and Indomitable.
  6. ↑ Chew, Oswald (1931). La question des dettes inter-alliées: études réunies et publiées en Amerique en 1928, sous le titre The stroke of the moment (in French). impr. Jouve et Cie; Marcel Giard, libr.-éditeur.
  7. ↑ Chew, Oswald (1933). Now is the Time to Abolish the War Debts ... O. Chew.
  8. ↑ Chew, Oswald (1932-06-16). "WAR DEBTS AND SERVICES.; Allies, It Is Held, Have Valid Counter-Claim Aoainst Us". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
  9. ↑ Chew, Oswald (1940). For a Better World Tomorrow. Dorrance.
  10. ↑ A Nation-Wide Organization, Maison Francaise. (PDF)
  11. ↑ "Le comité de la France Libre des États-Unis - Fondation de la France Libre" (in French). 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2022-09-30.


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