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

Year:	1938
Number:	1-1
Nominee 1:
Name:	Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
Gender:	M
Year, birth:	1857
Year, death:	1941
Profession/Category:	Army officer. Founder of the Boy Scouts movement.
City:	London
Country:	GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Nominee 2:
Name:	American Friends' Service Committee
Year, birth:	1672
City:	Washington, DC
Country:	US (UNITED STATES)
Received prize:	Pea 1947 »
Nominee 3:
Name:	Friends' Service Council
Year, birth:	1647
City:	London
Country:	GB (UNITED KINGDOM)
Received prize:	Pea 1947 »
Motivation:	Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts movement in 1907 and he organized the movement internationally. He and his sister Agnes founded the Girl Guides in 1910 (in the US Girls Scouts from 1912). In 1916 Baden-Powell organized the Wolf Cubs in Great Britain (Cub Scouts in the US) for boys under the age of 11. The nominators emphasized the brotherly mentality and the non-militaristic character of the movement. The American Friends' Service Committee and Friends' Service Council advocated peace and pacifism. During WWI the Quakers performed relief work neglected by other humanitarian organizations. From the 1930s the Quakers mostly agitated for peace in ecclesiastical circles, and they initiated a peace committee for all English religious communities. The Quakers also aided political refugees coming from Germany, and for this purpose they established the organization "Service International d'Aide aux Réfugiés".
Nominator:
Name:	Cornelius Bernhard Hanssen
Gender:	M
Profession/Category:	Shipowner. Member of the Nobel Committee (1913-1939).
City:	Flekkefjord
Country:	NO (NORWAY)
Evaluation:
Evaluator 1:
Name:	Frede Castberg
Gender:	M
Comment:	Hanssen suggested that the prize either was divided between the two Quaker organizations, or awarded Baden-Powell.