Peace

Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945 The Activity of the International Committee of the Red Cross during the War, 1939-1945 Not long ago, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Madame . In one of her works which she entitled The Wreath, Madame Undset spoke of the “savage paths” which her heroes had to tread.…

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Acceptance Speech

Acceptance by Max Huber, Honorary President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1945. After receiving the prize from Mr. Jahn, Mr. Huber (1874-1960), Swiss jurist, a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross since 1923, and…

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Acceptance Speech

Radio Address by Carlos Saavedra Lamas, delivered on November 29, 1931, after the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on November 25, 1931. Carlos Saavedra Lamas was unable to attend the held in Oslo on December 10, 1936, for he was presiding at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace which was…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1934 Essential Elements of a Universal and Enduring Peace Men and women everywhere are once more asking the old question – is it peace? They are asking it with anxiety and fear; for, on the one hand, there has never been such a longing for peace and dread of war as…

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Acceptance Speech

Arthur Henderson’s Acceptance Speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1934. Your Royal Highness, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. President, Members of the Nobel Peace Committee, and Ladies and Gentlemen: I am deeply touched by the kind words which you, Mr. Prime Minister, have used today in…

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Nobel Lecture

Nobel Lecture, June 12, 1935 Peace and the Public Mind I want my first words to be an expression of my deep sense of the honor which the Nobel Committee have conferred upon me. You will understand me when I say that I have no adequate expression for what I feel in the fact that…

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