by Susan | Aug 1, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
No Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded from 1939 through 1943. In 1939 there were seven viable nominations: Mahatma Gandhi, American peace activist Carrie Chapman Catt, Swedish pacifist Carl Lindhagen, French union leader Léon Jouhaux, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell...
by Susan | Jul 31, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1938 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Nansen International Office for Refugees, part of the League of Nations, for its work in aiding refugees. The office was established in 1930, after the death of Laureate Fridhof Nansen and, at the time, was mainly charged...
by Susan | Jul 30, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1937 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Cecil of Chelwood, Viscount (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil), of the United Kingdom, for his work with the League of Nations. In the early 1930s, two events destroyed people’s belief in the ability of the...
by Susan | Jul 29, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1936 peace Prize was awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas, of Argentina, for his mediation of an end to the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia. He was the first Laureate from South America, and, in his Presentation Speech by historian Christian Lous Lange, a...
by Susan | Jul 28, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1935 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Carl von Ossietzky, of Germany, for his struggle against Germany’s rearmament. Von Ossietzky, a journalist, was jailed by the Nazis when he revealed that Germany was re-arming in defiance of the Versailles Treaty. The...
by Susan | Jul 27, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1934 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Arthur Henderson, of the United Kingdom, for his work for the League, particularly its efforts in disarmament. He was one of the founders of the Labour Party. He said, in his acceptance speech: “To a visitor from another...
