Nobel Laureates Present Peace Declaration to United Nations

Four of the six living Nobel Peace Prize Laureates presented a Declaration on Peace and Disarmament to the United Nations in a ceremony at Headquarters today. Lester B. Pearson, former Canadian Prime Minister and recipient of the Peace Prize in 1957, presented the Declaration in leather-bound copies to Edvard Hambro (Norway), President of the General assembly. In addition to Mr. Pearson, the Declaration was signed by Rene Cassin, French jurist, President of the European Court of Human Rights and recipient of the 1968 Peace Prize; Philip Noel-Baker, British Labour Party Statesman and 1959 Peace Laureate; Linus Pauling, United States chemist and holder of the Nobel Prize for chemistry, 1954, and for peace, 1962; and Lord John Boyd Orr, Scottish physiologist, former Director-General for the Food and Agriculture Organization and recipient of the 1949 Peace Prize. All but Lord Boyd Orr, who was unable to come to New York, were present at the ceremony and made statements. The sixth living Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Ralph J. Bunche, UN Under-Secretary General for special Political Affairs and 1950 recipient of the Peace Prize, was not a signatory to the Declaration because of this position with the Secretariat.
Mr. Hambro (right) thanking Mr. Pearson for the leather-bound copies of the Declaration. At center is Secretary-General U Thant.