1969
Alfred D. Hershey – Banquet speech
Banquet speech
Alfred D. Hershey’s speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, December 10, 1969 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: After the announcement of the awards in Physiology or Medicine I received some mail from strangers. One man wrote: “I thank God for your prize. Do you?” I didn’t answer his question…
moreInternational Labour Organization – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1969 ILO and the Social Infrastructure of Peace “Universal and lasting peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice.” This statement, which opens the preamble to the ILO’s constitution, clearly and unmistakably places on the ILO a major role in the maintenance of peace. It shows that…
moreInternational Labour Organization – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance Speech
Acceptance by David A. Morse, Director-general of the ILO, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1969. Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Madam President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, No-one who rises to accept the Nobel Peace Prize either in his individual capacity or, as in my case,…
moreInternational Labour Organization – History
History
The International Labour Organization was created in 1919 by Part XIII of the Versailles Peace Treaty ending World War I. It grew out of nineteenth-century labor and social movements which culminated in widespread demands for social justice and higher living standards for the world’s working people. In 1946, after the demise of the League of…
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Samuel Beckett – Bibliography
Bibliography
Works in English Whoroscope : Poem on Time. – Paris : Hours, 1930 Proust. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1931 ; New York : Grove, 1957 More Pricks Than Kicks. – London : Chatto & Windus, 1934 ; New York : Grove, 1970 Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. – Paris : Europa, 1935 Murphy.…
moreSamuel Beckett – Nobel diploma
Nobel diploma