1954
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance Speech
Acceptance by Dr. G.J. van Heuven Goedhart, High Commissioner, UNHCR, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1955 I feel greatly privileged and honoured to represent here the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace 1954, which is the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for…
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Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1955 Refugee Problems and Their Solutions On the tenth of December, fifty-nine years ago, Alfred Bernhard Nobel died in his villa at San Remo in Italy, sixty-three years old. The villa bore the name of “Mio Nido”, and I do not know whether he himself thus christened his house. Perhaps he…
moreLinus Pauling – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Linus Pauling’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1954 Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: It is a great honor to be chosen as the recipient of a Nobel Prize; not only a great honor, but a great pleasure, and, speaking not only for myself but also for my…
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Nobel Lecture
Ernest Hemingway – Other resources
Other resources
Links to other sites – which provides information on conferences, etc., and contains the Society Newsletter, and where the useful The Hemingway Review Index can be downloaded. An for hearing Hemingway read selections from his own works. Readings include a recording by a Havana , Cuba, radio station of Hemingway reading his “Nobel Prize Acceptance…
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