The Nobel Peace Prize 1957
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Lester Bowles Pearson
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The Nobel Peace Prize 1957 was awarded to Lester Bowles Pearson "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis"
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