| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize | |
| Year: | 1945 |
| Number: | 7 - 1 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Jan Christian Smuts |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1870 |
| Year, Death: | 1950 |
| Profession: | Prime Minister (1919-1924, 1939-1948) |
| City: | Pretoria |
| Country: | SOUTH AFRICA (ZA) |
| Motivation: | Smuts was nominated for his efforts to end World War II. South Africa's main role in the war was to help the allies in preventing Germany and Italy from conquering North Africa |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Halvdan Koht |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1965 |
| Profession: | Historian and former foreign minister. Former member of the Nobel Committee (1919-1937, 1940-1942) |
| University: | University of Oslo |
| City: | Oslo |
| Country: | NORWAY (NO) |
| Comments: | The nominations made in 1944 and 1945 were valid for both the reserved prize for 1944 and for the 1945 prize. Koht nominated Cordell Hull for the peace prize, but he also mentioned seven other candidates that were qualified for the peace prize. However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them. The persons mentioned were: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill, Anthony Eden, Josef Stalin, Max Litvinov, Edvard Benes, Jan Smuts. |