Author Archives: June Edvenson

Chamberlain was a British politician Who had studied in France and worked in India. He returned in time to be involved in Versailles, Where he worked on Germany’s reparations load. He was a League of Nations sceptic who Believed that individual nations could and should Resolve their own differences, and not hew To the ordersContinue reading “1925 – Sir Austen J. Chamberlain”

Dawes, an American, began as a fledgling lawyer Out West, defending farmers against the railroads But this career ended. Into banking he would go, And from Chicago banker, eventually to U.S. Comptroller. When the War began, he asked for a related position: By war’s end, in France, he was general of Allied supplies. When GermanyContinue reading “1925 – Charles Gates Dawes”

In Nineteen-hundred and twenty-three and four, The Nobel Peace Prize was not given as an award. The prize money went to a Special fund, allocated, To further Peace research, to perpetuate it. Meanwhile, Nansen continued refugee-processing, Shocked by the disinterest of the majority. “I see the suffering people of Europe bleeding To death on desertedContinue reading “1923 – 1924”

Everyone knew him, his travels and accomplishments. He pressed this to exceptional uses. To Denmark he went To seek a King for Norway, finally free. In Britain, he chose To speak to the Royal Geographic Society. He opposed War with Sweden, and in World War I was sent To negotiate food for Norway, a neutral,Continue reading “1922 – Fridtjof Nansen – 2”

Where to begin with this man of the century, Whose love of skiing as a Norwegian boy, he embraced, Whose talents included the sciences and zoology, Whose studies and travels, both, proved him an Ace. He skied across Norway to participate in ski ‘tricks,’ He skied across Greenland, the first to explore it so, HeContinue reading “1922 – Fridtjof Nansen”

One couldn’t be closer to the Peace prize itself, see, Than to work for the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway. As advisor and secretary, he built its research library, And embraced Peace work enthusiastically. This led to his selection as Secretary-General Of the Inter-Parliamentary Bureau in Brussels, Belgium. There, he successfully built this international “Union”Continue reading “1921 – Christian Lous Lange”

Karl Branting of Sweden shared the Nobel prize With Norway’s Lange, a fitting compromise. He embraced socialist ideals and strengthened Sweden’s role In suffrage, work hours and education goals. As an editor, statesman and first Socialist prime minister, He worked always to embrace Peace and reason. In 1905 when Norway left Sweden, he deterred ThoseContinue reading “1921 – Karl Hjalmar Branting”

Wilson’s prize was awarded in ’20, with Bourgeois,’ The League of Nation’s President, an equipoise. Bourgeois had stopped a coup d’etat in France As Paris’ Chief of Police. He later advanced To Secretary of State. He brought about social reforms From within, embracing human rights norms: A minimum wage, education, unemployment, Sick, accident and retirementContinue reading “1920 – Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois”

“It would be the irony of fate if my Administration had to do chiefly with foreign affairs,” Said Wilson before he became President. Why, Then Fate struck. He was first abroad, aware Of the war’s desperate pull, and the need to act influentially. Yet his efforts to remain neutral were given the sting When theContinue reading “1919 – Thomas Woodrow Wilson”

Even before the war broke out, the Red Cross Was busy developing new ways to aid those in need During wartime, and had, as well, set up an office To deal with prisoners of war, by particular deeds: To identify who they were, where, and what Their requirements were for support of all kinds, ToContinue reading “1917 – The International Committee of the Red Cross”