Word: buisson
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Thus it happened that the Nobel "Peace Prize" for 1927 was awarded, last week, to two elderly and little-known "fraternizers among nations": Professor Doktor Ludwig Quidde of the University of Munich, 69; and Professor Ferdinand Buisson, 86, retired, onetime preceptor at the Sorbonne. When the Norwegian Storting (Parliament), which is charged with making the award, announced its decision, last week, a teapot-tempest of press indignation seethed...
Better known, of course, is M. Buisson, now Honorary President of the League of the Rights of Man. Since he attended the first so-called "Congress for Peace and Liberty" in 1867, he has labored with and assisted almost every famed pacifist from Victor Hugo to Aristide Briand. Hundreds of peace tracts flowed incessantly off his pen during a literary activity of 60 years. Finally, he has raised his voice for peace in the French Parliament? as Herr Quidde has done in the German...
...Nobel diplomas were handed to M. Buisson and Herr Quidde by tall, rugged King Gustav V of Sweden. Diplomas covering literature, medicine and physics were then handed by His Majesty to winners announced some weeks ago (TIME...
...Third President," M. Ferdinand Buisson; won his election last week by the clean cut vote of 284 to 186. He represents the "Locarnoist" policy of Foreign Minister Briand, and defeated for his new post the onetime "Ruhrist" War Minister of Premier Poincaré, M. André Maginot. Frenchmen were pleased by the elevation of M Buisson last week, for he has held the thankless Vice-Presidency of the Chamber for the past two years with tact, polish, souplesse...