American Friends Service Committee
Nominations
The Nobel Peace Prize 1947
Friends Service Council , American Friends Service Committee
Nominated on 6 occasions for the Nobel Prize in
- Peace 1937, by Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
- Peace 1937, by Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
- Peace 1937, by Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
- Peace 1938, by Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
- Peace 1938, by Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
- Peace 1938, by Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
Submitted 5 nominations, for the Nobel Prize in
- Peace 1948, nominee: Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Peace 1956, nominee: Elisabeth Rotten
- Peace 1957, nominee: International Civil Service
- Peace 1962, nominee: Norman Cousins
- Peace 1967, nominee: Situ U Thant
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MLA style: “American Friends Service Committee – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.
MLA style: “American Friends Service Committee – Nominations”. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 22 Jun 2018.
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