The interallied victory medal (United States)
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History
The history of this medal during the First World War began and exactly in January 1917 when the British government asked France and Belgium from a medal struck town at the end of the war.
The French initially called this medal "international medal commemorating the war," and Representative Bouillox Lafont proposed it to the House of Representatives March 5, 1918.
The question remained blocked until 17 December 1918, when the Deputy Lebey proposed a bill that the House should set up a coin to see the victory of the Allies.
On 24 January 1919, the Supreme Council, composed of the chief delegates of the five powers (the United States of America, Britain, France, Italy, Japan) began work in the room of French Foreign Minister, Mr Pichon.
She was subsequently set up a special commission composed of delegates from every state winners who ended its work with a list of requirements that had to have this medal:
will create a medal during the war and called the victory medal;
This medal will be distributed in accordance with conditions stated in the central government, but these should be such that this medal be confused with any purely memorial which could be granted to all persons deployed;
the tape, the same for all countries, representing two rainbows side by side so that the center there is the color red, a white wire will run along each edge. This tape will be released as soon as possible;
The medal is bronze and round, its diameter 36mm, color, finish (patina), and the thickness of the ring for suspension, should be similar to that of the medal of the French countryside from 1870 to 1871;
recognized as impossible within any period of time acceptable to play a competition between artists from different countries and then select a single artist to perform the coin, it was agreed that instead of giving a medal identical, Allies and Partners can provide their fighters more like the medals between them. In this sense, governments have their medals, designed by artists of their choice, but the following specifications:
will be represented on the right a winged victory, standing, full-length and full face, the background and the edge will be simple: there is no law on the registration or date;
the other side will bring the message "The Great War for Civilization" in the language of the country concerned, and will show the names of the various allied and associated countries;
the edge will be smooth;
to meet as soon as possible to the desire of the combatants who return home to have some visible sign of their participation in the Great War, the Commission recommends to the Allies and Associated Governments to inform the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as soon as possible if I agree with previous recommendations numbered from 1 to 5, the answers will be immediately communicated to other governments, without delay, which can then be produced and distributed the tapes;
Each government should send as soon as all the other model it has adopted.
I am pleased to highlight the fact that the tape is a double rainbow to signify the calm after the storm and that is the dawning of a new era of peace, which then in fact did not materialize. The red center is not a case in that it indicates the blood. In addition, this tape had all the colors could be accepted without problem by all states.
Curiosity
Although many medals and set up on a lot of documentation, in fact there is no Inter-medal victory (according to the criteria of the Committee of 1919) Chinese, Filipino, Montenegro and Russia, however, exists a Polish version (link). In fact, even if Poland did not initially parteciapto the work of the committee and did not immediately respond to the invitation ally, later coined the medal.
Over the years I came also in the Order of Merit and the inter-Peace, of which two medals are the following:
This policy is guided by the principles that inspired the birth of the coin of the First World War.
Among the references I must point out this book "The Interallied Victory medals of World War I" by Alexander J. Laslo that you can easily find it on Amazon.
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