by Susan | Jul 20, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded in 1923 or 1924. In 1925 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Austen Chamberlain, of the United Kingdom, for work on the Locarno Treaties and Charles G. Dawes, of the United States, for work on the Dawes Plan for German...
by Susan | Jul 19, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1922 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, of Norway, for his work in aiding the millions in Russia struggling against famine and his work for the refugees in Asia Minor and Thrace. This, from the presentation speech by the head of the Nobel Committee...
by Susan | Jul 18, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1921 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Hjalmar Branting, of Sweden, for his work in the League of Nations and to Christian Lange, of Norway, for his work as the first secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and the secretary-general of the Inter-Parliamentary...
by Susan | Jul 17, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1920 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Léon Bourgeois, of France, President of the French Senate, for his participation in both the Hague Conferences and for his work towards what became the League of Nations to such an extent that he was frequently called its...
by Susan | Jul 16, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1919 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Woodrow Wilson, of the United States, for his crucial role in establishing the League of Nations. At the award ceremony it was noted, “Today, Gentlemen, as the Norwegian Parliament meets to present the Nobel Peace Prize...
by Susan | Jul 15, 2016 | Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
The 1917 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Committee of the Red Cross (Comité international de la Croix Rouge), based in Switzerland, for undertaking the tremendous task of trying to protect the rights of the many prisoners of war on all sides...
