1966 Nobel Peace Prize Withheld
| (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) OSLO, October 20. The Norwegian Peace Prize Committee has announced that it will delay awarding the 1966 Nobel Peace Prize until next year. It was the first time in 10 years that the peace prize had been withheld and the 11th time since the award was established in 1901 under the will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite. According to previous practices, the prize money is now reserved for next year.
The committee can then decide whether to let the prize money go into the Nobel Peace Prize Fund or decide on a worthy candidate. The peace prize for 1965 went to the United Nations’ Childrens Fund. In 1964 it went to the American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King. The committee gave no reason for its decision, United Press International reported. An official announcement simply said that the committee had decided to defer the 1966 peace price until next year.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31196, 21 October 1966, Page 11
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