| Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
| Year: | 1913 |
| Number: | 25 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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| Name: | Gaston Moch |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1859 |
| Year, Death: | 1935 |
| Profession: | Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
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Nominee 2:
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| Name: | Felix Stone Moscheles |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1833 |
| Year, Death: | 1917 |
| Profession: | Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| City: | London |
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Nominee 3:
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| Name: | The International Socialist Bureau (Bureau Socialiste International) |
| City: | Brussels |
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| Motivation: | Moch worked as a pacifist journalist in "Indépendance belge" and other newspapers, and he attended most of the international peace conferences from 1897 onwards. He organized and presided over the 11th congress in Monaco 1902 and he became Chairman of the newly founded Institut international de la Paix in 1903(-1906). Moch promoted the international language Esperanto and founded an Esperanto Peace Association in 1905.
Moscheles had been working for peace since he became a member of the Peace Association in 1878. Member of the Committee of the International Arbitration and Peace Association in 1880 and executive chairman of the Association from 1897. Promoted peace, international arbitration and pacifism.
The Bureau was the focal point of the international labor movement. It organized international meetings where peace was an important issue. In 1911 it contributed to turn public opinion against a possible European war over the Morocco conflict. In 1912 the Bureau organized an international labor congress in Basel in order to prevent an escalation of the conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. |
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Nominator:
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| Name: | Anna B Zipernowsky |
| Gender: | F |
| Profession: | Member of the Commission of the Permanent International Peace Bureau |
| City: | Budapest |
| Country: | HUNGARY (HU) |
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| Comments: |
Felix Moscheles was also on the short list, but no new evaluation was requested. |
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