Evening star., 1950-09-23
DR.. Bunche, Grandson of Slave,
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
BY the Asseeiatsd Press

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OSLO, Norway, Sept. 23.-Dr
Ralph Bunche. grandson Of an
American Negro slave and United
Nations mediator who brought an
end to conflict in the Holy Land,
has been awarded the Nobel peace
prize for 1850.
AS far as is known here. DR..
Bunche is the first Negro ever
to be awarded a Nobel prize in
any field. Certainly, he is the
first of his race to receive the
peace prize. 1t will be presented
to him December 10.
Announcement of the award
was made last night by the Nor
wegian Nobel Committee, which
never gives the reason for its
choice. The prize this year
amounts to 164,303 kroner (about
$4,000.
Expresses Humility"
At Lake Success. DR.. Bunche
said he had received the news
with deep humility" He was
busy at work as principal director
in the Trusteeship Division of the
United Nations.
II, more than any one. recog-
nize the extent to which my peace
efforts in the Near East flowed
from the strength of the United
Nations" he said.
DR.. Bunche, who succeeded
Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden
as the United Nations mediator in
Palestine, after Count Bernadotte
was assassinated in 1948, effected
an armistice that ended the bitter
clash between Jews and Arabs and
threatened the entire Middle East
soon after World War II.
Pays Tribute to Bernadotte.
He paid tribute to his predeces-
sor for laying the essential founda-
tions of the Palestine agreements,
calling Count Bernadotte "the
great and courageous man who
gave his life in the determined
effort to bring peace to Palestine. "
"At this moment I cannot for
get that Count Bernadotte and 10
other members of our team gave
their lives in the effort to restore
peace to Palestine" DR.. Bunche
said.
DIR. Bunche risked his own life
in the days that followed his sue
cession to Count Bernadotte's post.
Six organizations and 28 per-
sons were nominated for the peace
prize last February. Among the
individuals were President Tru-
man, Gen. George c. Marshall,
Winston Churchill, India's Pre-
mier Jawaharlal Nehru, Count
Richard Coudenhove Kalergi,
founder of the Pan-European
movement, and DR.. Herbert Evatt,
Australian statesman.
DR.. Bunche Is, the 11th Ameri-
can to win the peace prize. The
first was President Theodore
Roosevelt, who received the 1906
award. Others were Elihu Root,
Woodrow Wilson, Charles G.
Dawes. Frank B. Kellogg. DR..
Nicholas Murray Butler, Jane
Adams. Cordell Hull, John r.
Mott and Emily G. Balch.
Established by VIII.
The annual prizes are awarded
from a trust established by the
will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish in
ventor of dynamite, who died in
1896. The awards are made to
those judged to have served hu-
manity best during the past year
in medicine, chemistry. physics,
literature and the effort for peace.
Swedish institutions make all
the awards except that for peace,
which is made by a committee
of five persons elected by the Nor
wegian Parliament.
For the peace prize candidates
may be proposed by parliaments
and governments all over the
world and by certain institutions
and individuals.
The will of DR.. Nobel, who be-
queathed SO million, the interest
from which provides the prizes,
stipulated the peace prize should
be awarded to the candidate "who
has worked most or best for pro-
noting brotherhood among peo-
pie, and for abolition or reduction
of the standing armies, and for
the establishment and spread Of
peace congresses"
Well known in Capital.
DR.. Bunche is a native of De-
troit but is well known in Wash
ington, first coming here in 1928
as an assistant professor at How