by Susan | Aug 7, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ralph Bunche, of the United States, a Howard University political science professor, Director of the Division of Trusteeship at the United Nations and the Acting Mediator in Palestine. Bunche was an active and vocal supporter...
by Susan | Aug 6, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
No Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1948 because “there was no suitable living candidate.” This is now acknowledged to be a tribute to Mohandas Gandhi, who was assassinated in January of that year. The 1949 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Lord (John) Boyd...
by Susan | Aug 5, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1947 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Friends Service Council, of the United Kingdom and to the American Friends Service Committee, of the United States, for their compassion for others and the desire to help them. The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five...
by Susan | Aug 4, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1946 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Emily Greene Balch, of the United States, formerly Professor of History and Sociology (at Wellesley) and the Honorary International President of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and to John Raleigh...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1945 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Cordell Hull, of the United States, for his fight against isolationism at home, his efforts to create a peace bloc of states on the American continents, and his work for the United Nations Organization. The Nobel Peace Prize...
by Susan | Aug 2, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1944 Nobel Peace Prize was again awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross, for “the great work it has performed during the war in behalf of humanity.” On 8 May 1945, an Allied military mission arrived in Oslo to deliver the conditions...
