The highly controversial Lawrence Dennis was serving the U.S. Government's interests in Romania when King Ferdinand I was crowned.

The King issued this proclamation honoring Dennis on October 22, 1922. The decree is written in Romanian, and since I can neither read nor write Romanian, I have little idea about what it says. What I can decipher is that it was issued to Dennis and it has something to do with his foreign service. It has the official seal of the King embossed on it, and it is hand-signed by a Government Minister of Romania.

The proclamation was found among other papers from King Ferdinand's coronation ceremonies, which Dennis would have most likely attended, since he was stationed in Romania at that time.

It would be interesting to know exactly what is included in the document, especially since Dennis is such an amazing and controversial figure in U.S. history. Aside from being the in the U.S. Foreign Service, Dennis is well-known as a radical intellectual writer on political economy. He graduated from Harvard in 1920 and served in Haiti and Romania. He published his first book in 1932 at the height of the Great Depression. In 1944, he was the target of a smear campaign and was indicted under the Smith Act. Lawrence Dennis was the major subject of Ronald Radosh's book called the Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism.