Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize |
Year: | 1936 |
Number: | 17 - 1 |
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Nominee 1:
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Name: | Pierre Laval |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1883 |
Year, Death: | 1945 |
Profession: | Jurist. Prime Minister (1931-32, 1935-36) and Foreign Minister (1932, 1934-36) |
City: | Paris |
Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
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Nominee 2:
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Name: | Sir Samuel John Gurney Hoare |
Gender: | M |
Year, Birth: | 1880 |
Year, Death: | 1959 |
Profession: | Member of the British parliament. Former Foreign Minister (1935) |
City: | London |
Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB) |
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Motivation: | Hoare and Laval developed the so-called Hoare-Laval Plan for the partition of Ethiopian territory between Italy and Ethiopia (Abyssinia), in order to solve the conflict between the two states. The plan clearly favored Italy, and was not implemented due to British opposition.
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Nominator:
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Name: | Marc Réglade |
Gender: | M |
Profession: | Professor of Law (Jurisprudence) |
University: | University of Bordeaux |
City: | Bordeaux |
Country: | FRANCE (FR) |
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Comments: |
Réglade's primary choice was an undivided prize to Laval. His secondary suggestion was divided prize between Laval and Hoare.
In 1945 Laval was convicted and executed for treason. As leader of the Vichy government he had collaborated closely with Germany during the war. |
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