Word: nobel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nobel peace prize medal, bearing the inscription: "For Bravery in the face of Senate...
...Fascist newsorgan II Tevere explained editorially last week why, of four recently awarded Nobel Peace Prizes, not one went to an Italian. Wrote the editor: "Fascismo wants justice for itself and others and has no ax to grind under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this...
...Swedish Nobel Prizes. Dynamiter Nobel placed the awarding of all his prizes except the Peace prize in the hands of his fellow Swedes. The learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University...
...League of Nations in session at Geneva (TIME, Dec. 13) became last week the antechamber to a series of vital conferences in hotel rooms between the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany. These so august statesmen were in a critical predicament. They had each just received a Nobel Peace Prize (see above), yet there existed between them ample grounds for strife. They were seeking to substitute for Allied military control of German disarmament civilian control by the League...
Compromise. The German Cabinet soon gave Dr. Stresemann carte blanche. The French Cabinet met in three long secret sessions and finally transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said...