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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East, 1948-1949
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Ralph Bunche: UN Mediator in the Middle East, 1948-1949 by Asle Sveen This article was published on 9 December 2006. “I have a bias in favour of both Arabs and Jews in the sense that I believe that both are good, honourable and essentially peace-loving peoples, and are therefore as capable of making peace as…
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Award ceremony speech
Award ceremony speech
Presentation Speech by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the Dr. Ralph Bunche was born forty-six years ago in Detroit in the United States. So today he is still a young man and indeed, along with , the youngest to be awarded the Peace Prize. Consequently, while most laureates have left their best years behind them,…
moreRalph Bunche – Biographical
Biographical
Ralph Johnson Bunche (August 7, 1904-1971) was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father, Fred Bunche, was a barber in a shop having a clientele of whites only; his mother, Olive (Johnson) Bunche, was an amateur musician; his grandmother, «Nana» Johnson, who lived with the family, had been born into slavery. When Bunche was ten years…
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Philip S. Hench – Biographical
Biographical
Philip Showalter Hench was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 28, 1896, the son of Jacob Bixler Hench and Clara Showalter. After attending local schools he entered Lafayette College, Easton, Penn., where he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1916. He enlisted in the Medical Corps of the United States Army in 1917 but was transferred…
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