Cleveringa , like Meijers , returned as a professor at Leiden University , which was reopened in September 1945 . In 1946 he acted as honorary representative to Sir Winston Churchill in Leiden . The same year he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . On 8 April 1953 , the American government awarded Cleveringa the Medal of Freedom for his resistance work . In 1958 he retired from the university but joined the Council of State and served until 1963 , when he was named Councillor of State extraordinary
Medal of Freedom
Medal of Freedom (1945)
Rudolph Cleveringa