Peace
Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik, Vice-Chairman of the , on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1976 in the University Festival Hall, Oslo, December 10, 1977. Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: On August 10, 1976, a remarkable incident occurred in one of the streets…
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Elihu Root – Biographical
Biographical
Elihu Root (February 15, 1845-February 7, 1937), who became one of the most brilliant administrators in American history, was born in Clinton, New York, son of a professor of mathematics at Hamilton College. Perhaps it was inevitable that the father and Elihu’s elder brother, who was also a mathematician, should be nicknamed «Cube» and «Square».…
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Philip Noel-Baker – Biographical
Biographical
The Right Honorable Philip John Noel-Baker (November 1, 1889-1982) is a man of strong and steadfast convictions. To a reporter who interviewed him after the announced that he had been awarded the Peace Prize, he said, «War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization – that is the essence of my…
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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East, 1948-1949
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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East, 1948-1949 by Asle Sveen “I have a bias in favour of both Arabs and Jews in the sense that I believe that both are good, honourable and essentially peace-loving peoples, and are therefore as capable of making peace as of waging war …” – Ralph Bunche, 1949…
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