Honours and Awards
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- Order of the Oak Crown
- Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria (1955)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1958)
- Charlemagne Prize (26 May 1960) - "in recognition of his life's work and his high merits for the unification of Europe that began in the old League of Nations and in the European institutions took their purposeful continuation."
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