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The Nomination Database for the Nobel Prize
in Peace, 1901-1956

Year: 1930
Number: 2-1
   
Nominee:  
Count Albert Apponyi
M
1846
1933
Member of the Hungarian parliament. Former Cabinet Minister
Budapest
HU (HUNGARY)
   
Motivation: Apponyi promoted inter-parliamentary peace work and international arbitration. Delegate to all inter-parliamentary peace conferences 1895-1912 (except Brussels in 1897). He initiated a proposal to make it compulsary for the inter-parliamentary groups in each country to establish peace pressure groups, which had been done in Hungary.
Apponyi represented Hungary in the Council of the League of Nations in 1925. He strongly advocated disarmament.
   
Nominator:
 
The professors at the Faculty of Law at the Elisabeth University of Pécs
Professors of Law
The Elizabeth University of Pécs
Pécs
HU (HUNGARY)
   
Evaluation: No
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MLA style: "Nomination Database - Peace". Nobelprize.org. 24 May 2013 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/nomination/nomination.php?action=show&showid=1706