Senior military officers and diplomats receive honorary degrees at Oxford (1945)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Honorary doctorates of civil law are presented to the leaders who won World War II, including General Dwight Eisenhower, US Ambassador to England John Winant, General Mark Clark (captured Monte Cassino and planned the Allied invasion of North Africa), General Bernard Freyburg (Crete and El Alamein), Jan Hofmeyr (South African Deputy Prime Minister), Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, and Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder (aerial tactician) Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Degrees for War Leaders ENGLAND: Oxford: University of Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre: EXT/INT CLARKE, General. Receives Honourary Degree of Civil Law, at Oxford. . Receives Honourary degree of civil law, at Oxford, FREYBERG. Maj . V.C. . Receives Honourary Degree of Civil Law at Oxford. HOFMEYER, Jan. (So
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