Peace
American Friends Service Committee – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
Acceptance Speech by Professor Henry J. Cadbury, representing the American Friends Service Committee, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1947 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highness and friends. On behalf of the American Friends Committee I accept our share of this award with humility and gratitude. We…
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Emily Greene Balch – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, April 7, 1948 Toward Human Unity or Beyond Nationalism It is natural to try to understand one’s own time and to seek to analyse the forces that move it. The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are…
moreJohn R. Mott – Nobel Lecture
Nobel Prize lecture
Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1946 The Leadership Demanded in This Momentous Time There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. Extreme nationalism and…
moreJohn R. Mott – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
John R. Mott’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1946 Your Majesty, Your Royal Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Mr. Chairman and members of the Nobel Committee of the Storting and other friends: I do not trust myself to voice emotions which well-nigh master me in…
moreEmily Greene Balch – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
As the Laureate was unable to be present on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1946 the acceptance was read by Gunnar Jahn, Chairman of the . I desire to express my grateful appreciation of this great honour and my pleasure in being associated in it today…
moreCordell Hull – Acceptance Speech
Acceptance speech
As the Laureate was unable to be present on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1945, the acceptance was read by Mr. Lithgow Osborne, ambassador of the United States to Norway Your Majesty; Your Royal Highnesses; Your Excellencies, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Nobel Committee of…
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