Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1954 |
Number: | 9 - 2 |
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Nominee 1:
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Name: | Jawaharlal (Pandit) Nehru |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1889 |
Year, Death: | 1964 |
Profession: | First prime minister of independent India (1947-1964) |
City: | Delhi |
Country: | INDIA (IN) |
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Nominee 2:
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Name: | Clement Richard Lord Attlee |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1883 |
Year, Death: | 1967 |
Profession: | Politician, Prime Minister (1945-1951) |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Motivation: | Nehru established parliamentary government in India, and he had been one of the principal leaders of the independence movement. He was nominated for his neutralist foreign policy and for upholding the same principles as Gandhi. |
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Nominator:
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Name: | Jens Arup Seip |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Professor, Consultant for the Norwegian Nobel Committee |
City: | Oslo |
Country: | NORWAY (NO) |
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Comments: |
Was also evaluated in 1950 and 1951.
August Schou also wrote an additonal evaluation in 1953
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