Nomination Archive


Nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
Year:1951
Number:22 - 2
 
Nominee:
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)
 
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.
 
Nominator:
Name:Lewis M Hoskins
Gender:M
Profession:Member of the American Friends Service Committee
Country:UNITED STATES (US)
 
Comments: Hoskins made the nomination on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee.