Nobel Prize

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Stang, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1927 The Nobel Committee has awarded the Peace Prize for this year jointly to Ferdinand Buisson and Ludwig Quidde. At last year’s ceremony the Committee gave prominence to three events of historical significance to the world: the Dawes Plan, the Locarno Pact, and…

Presentation Speech by , member of the , on December 10, 1934 In the work for international peace, as in other fields of human endeavor, there must be a division of labor; among others, a division of labor between technicians and educators. Mr. is one of the technicians, a statesman devising plans for peace and…

Presentation Speech by Fredrik Stang, Chairman of the , on December 10, 1936 Carl von Ossietzky, who has been awarded the Peace Prize for 1935, belongs to no political party. He is not a Communist; he is not in any sense a conservative. Indeed, one cannot easily pin on him any of the usual political…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the , December 10, 1945 Cordell Hull has devoted his entire life to the stabilization of international relations. Best known to the public are his untiring efforts in the field of commercial policy, efforts inspired by his desire to counteract autarchic tendencies both in the U.S.A. and abroad.…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of Albert Schweitzer was born in Alsace in 1875, a few years after this province had become part of the German Empire. He has seen Alsace reincorporated with France, overrun by the Germans during the Second World War, and then once again reunited with France. Having grown up in…

Presentation Speech by Carl Joachim Hambro, Member of the Nobel Committee When Cadet First Captain George Catlett Marshall graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, was meeting to discuss the awarding of Nobel’s Peace Prize for the first time. And on the day when Marshall, who had not yet completed his twenty-first year, received a letter…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee has this year awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to the Belgian Dominican, Father Georges Pire, for his efforts to help refugees to leave their camps and return to a life of freedom and dignity. Father Pire’s work is known to all of us in Western…

  Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Nobel Committee This year the of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded two Peace Prizes. The prize for 1960 goes to Albert John Lutuli, and the prize for 1961 is awarded posthumously to Dag Hammarskjöld. In many respects these two recipients differ widely. Albert John Lutuli’s life…

Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Shortly after the atomic bombs were exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, made this statement: “The time has come now, when man must give up war. It is no longer rational to solve international problems by resorting to war. Now that an atomic bomb, such as the bombs…

Presentation Speech by Mrs. Aase Lionaes, Member of the , Norwegian Storting The death of Alfred Nobel at San Remo on December 10, 1896, robbed the world of a highly talented person. At the same time the world was enriched by a document, a testament, which has provided growth and stimulus to the ideals and…