| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1931 |
| Number: | 8 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Aristide Pierre Henri Briand |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1862 |
| Year, Death: | 1932 |
| Profession: | Jurist and journalist. Member of parliament. Former Prime Minister. Foreign Minister |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
| Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 1926 |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Peter Rochegune Munch |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1870 |
| Year, Death: | 1948 |
| Profession: | Historian. Foreign Minister. |
| City: | Copenhagen |
| Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
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| Motivation: | Briand was nominated for his plan to create a European Union. The plan was first presented in the League of Nations in 1929, and in 1930 the French government put forth a memorandum on the issue. The League then decided to establish a study commission on the subject with Briand as its chairman.
Munch was nominated for his long-standing and energetic advocacy of international disarmament, both as a Danish statesman and as a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and the Permanent International Peace Bureau. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Georg Cohn |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Professor of Law. Member of the International Court of Arbitration at The Hague. |
| University: | University of Copenhagen |
| City: | Copenhagen |
| Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
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