Presentation Speech by Aase Lionæs, Chairman of the , on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1977 in the University Festival Hall, Oslo, December 10, 1977 Translation Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year the Norwegian Nobel Committee is awarding two Peace Prizes, one to…

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No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to the Special Fund of this prize section.

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Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet, Baron d’Estournelles de Constant de Rebecque (November 22, 1852 – May 15, 1924), the son of an aristocratic family tracing its ancestry back to the Crusaders, was born at La Flèche in the Sarthe district of the Loire valley. A diplomat and politician, d’Estournelles, immensely energetic, found time to engage in…

The life of Frank Billings Kellogg (December 22, 1856-December 21, 1937), a farm boy who rose to international preeminence as the co-author of a treaty to outlaw war, is a uniquely American story. Frank Kellogg was born in Potsdam, N.Y., but the Kellogg family, becoming part of the westward movement which gripped the country at…