Oswald Chew (March 24, 1880 — December 6, 1949) was a noted author decorated

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and active in the US for de Gaulle against

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. Oswald Chew was born on 24 May 1880, in

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, to his father, Samuel Chew, aged 48 and his mother, Mary (Brown) Johnson, aged 41. Around 1895, he married Ada Caroline Knowlton, in Upton,

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. Chew was awarded

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after

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in 1917 and ''Legion of honor'' in 1925. Chew served with

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, drove ambulance in France, and was liaison officer in

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. He practiced law in Pennsylvania. He authored: in 1925, ''France Courageous and Indomitable''; in 1928: ''La question des dettes inter-alliées études réunies et publiées en Amerique en 1928, sous le titre The stroke of the moment.'' he question of inter-allied debts studies collected and published in America in 1928, under the title The stroke of the moment/span>; in 1933: ''Now is the Time to Abolish the War Debts...'' and on June 16, 1932 wrote in the

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about the matter. In 1940 he authored: ''For a Better World Tomorrow''. Chew was a founding member of

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.A Nation-Wide Organization, ''Maison Francaise''

(PDF) On May 15, 1944, he wrote in the ''New York Times'' on De Gaulle that his "Stand approved; his committee, it is held, should hear civil rehabilitation." Chew died on 6 December 1949, in Radnor Township, Delaware,

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