NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
PEOPOSAL OF CANDIDATES
The Government has been advised by< dispatch that all proposals of candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, which is to be distributed on 10th December, 1930, must, ■in order to be taken into consideration, be laid before the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament by a duly qualified person before Ist February next. Any ojie of the following persons is held "to be duly qualified: Members and late members of the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as the advisers appointed at the Norjwegian Nobel Institute; members of Parliament and members of Government of the different States, as well as members of the Interparliamentary Union; members of the International Arbitration Court at the Hague; members of the Council of the International Peace Bureau; members and associates of the Institute of International Law; University professors of political science and of law, of- history, and of philosophy; and persons who have receievd the Nobel peace prize. The Nobel peace prize may also be accorded to institutions or associations. According to the Code of Statutes, the grounds upon which any proposal is made must.be stated, and handed in along with such papers and other documents as may therein be referred to. Every written work, to qualtfy for a prize,' must have appeared in print. The. Nobel peace prize was one of five valuable prizes of money provided for. by Alfred. Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish chemist and engineer, at his death in 1896, to be given annually to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international brotherhood, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the furtherance or establishment of peace congresses.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 12
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284NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 12
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