Prize Winners’
can Father, George Pire, the recipient in 1958. The other signatories were: Sir Norman Angell, the British author and winner of the prize in 1934, Lord Boyd Orr, a former British director of the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations and winner of the prize in 1949, Dr. Albert . Schweitzer, the recipient in 1952. Chief Albert Luthuli, leader of the banned (South) African National Congress and recipient in 1960, and Dr. Martin Luther King, the American civil rights leader and recipient in 1964. There are only two other living recipients of the Nobel peace prize—the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Lester Pearson and Dr. Ralph Buncbe, an under-secretary of the United Nations. Dr. Pauling said both informed him that because of their official positions they could not endorse appeals of this kind. Dr. Pauling's announce-
ment said this was the first time that Nobel peace prize winners had made a joint plea for a cessation of hostilities in any conflict. The appeal has been sent to President Johnson. President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam, the Chinese leader, Mao
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30829, 14 August 1965, Page 15
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