Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1925
Number:11 - 1
 
Nominee:
Name:Ramsay MacDonald
Gender:M
Year, Birth:1866
Year, Death:1937
Profession:Member of the British parliament. Prime Minister 1924, 1929-31 and 1931-1935
City:London
Country:UNITED KINGDOM (GB)
 
Motivation:MacDonald joined the Labour Party in 1894 and he gradually became a well known political writer. Socialism was the subject of most of his books, but he did not encourage revolution. In 1911 he became parliamentary leader of the Labour Party, and in 1924 he became the first Labour prime minister. MacDonald presided over the negotiations on US Secretary of State Dawes' Plan for the payment of German war reparations 1924. He was also instrumental in the process that resulted in the Geneva Protocol on collective security, disarmament and compulsory arbitration.
 
Nominator:
Name:A Grotenfeld
Gender:M
Profession:Professor of Philosophy/ Member of Government / Member of Parliament
City:Helsinki
Country:FINLAND (FI)
 
Comments: The nominators suggested that one of the two prizes available was given to Ramsay MacDonald, and that the other prize was equally divided between Jane Addams and Ludwig Quidde.