Pritt-LeninPz

Lenin Peace Prize recipients
       1950
Frederic Joliot-Curie
Soong Ching-ling ( Madame Sun Yat Sen)
Hewlett Johnson
Eugenie Cotton
Arthur Moulton
Pak Chong Ae
Heriberto Jara Corona
      1951
Guo Moruo
Monica Felton
Oyama Ikuo
Pietro Nenni
Anna Seghers
JorgeAmado
      1952
Johannes Becher
Eliza Branco
Ilya Ehrenburg
Rev. James Gareth Endicott
Yves Farge
Saifuddin Kitchlew
Paul Robeson
      1953
Andrea Andreen
John Desmond Bernal
Isabelle Blume
Howard Fast
Andrew Gaggiero
Leon Kruczkowski
Pablo Neruda
Nina Vasilevna Popova
Sir Sahib-singh Sokhey
Pierre Cot
                1954
Alain Le Leap
Baldomero Sanincano
Prijono
Bertholt Brecht
Andre Bonnard
Thakin Kodaw Hmaing
Felix Iversen
Nicolas Guillen
Denis Nowell Pritt
      1955
Laza ro Cardenas
Mohammed Al-Ashmar
Karl Joseph Wirth
Ton fluc Thang
Akiko Seki
Ragnar Forbeck
      1957
Louis Aragon
Emmanuel d'Astier
Heinrich Brandweiner (b. 1910)
Danilo Dolci (b. 1924)
Maria Rosa Oliver (b. 1898)
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Udakandawala Saranankara Thero (b. 1902)
Nikolay Semenovich Tikhonov
     1958
Josef Lukl Hromadka
Artur Lundkvist
Louis Saillant
Kaoru Yasui
Amold Zweig
     1959
Otto Buchwitz
W.E.B. DuBois
Nikita Khrushchev
Ivor Montagu
Kostas Varnalis
            1960
Laurent C asanova
Cyrus Eaton
Sukarno
           1961
Fidel Castro
Ostap Dlussky (b. 1892 in Buczacz)
William Morrow (b. 1888)
Rameshvari Neru (b. 1886)
Mihail Sadoveanu
Antoine Tabet
Ahmed Sekou Toure
   1962
Konstantin Simun
Istvan Dobi
Olga Poblete de Espinosa
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Kwame Nkrumah
Pablo Picasso
Georgi Traikov
Manolis Glezos
    1963
Modibo Keita
Oscar Niemeyer

Denis Nowell Pritt, (1887-1972) Queen’s Councillor (U.K.) had an international legal career that stretched from the 1920’s to the 1960’s.   He was arguably the most persistent Leftist political gadfly of his day anywhere in the world (save for Bertrand Russell, who did not practice law).   He earned the prestigious legal title King’s Councillor in 1927.
    His greatest claim to fame was his service as chairman of the international Commission of Enquiry into the Reichstag Fire of 1933, which was organized in London by a group of lawyers, democrats and other anti-Nazi groups under the aegis of German Communist émigrés.   The Nazis blamed the fire on Communists, and used this purported Communist conspiracy to justify their suspension of liberties guaranteed in the Constitution of the Weimar Republic; the Pritt Commission found that the Communists could not have started the fire, and that the Nazis probably were the culprits.   The Pritt Commission Report came to the attention of the German authorities in time to thwart the Nazi’s effort to frame a group of Communists on charges of having set the fire; the Communists’ acquittal in the trial in Leipzig was hailed as the last major victory for justice in Germany until Hitler’s death. Nazi control of the German judiciary was not yet so total as to produce a complete kangaroo court in a case which, partly thanks to the Pritt Commission Report, had become of international interest.   This Commission’s report was the first major expose’ of Nazi tactics to have a major impact upon public opinion in Western countries toward the Nazi threat.
    No doubt on the heels of his role in this episode, he won election as a Labour Party candidate for a seat in Parliament in 1935, and he would win reelection in a landslide over both a Labour and a Tory candidate in 1945, thereby earning public congratulations from Mao Tse Tung.   He was ousted in the 1950 election which swept the Tories and Churchill back into power.
    Apart from his Reichstag Fire role, Pritt had the general reputation as an ace lawyer, whose services were provided, often pro bono, to victims of political prosecutions, as when he defended the likes of Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, and Ho Chi Minh from prosecution by colonial authorities.   In the 1930 Ho Chi Minh case, a French request for extradition was blocked, which, had it been upheld, would almost certainly led to the execution of the eventual Vietnamese leader.      His services were in the highest demand from business interests, but he would never take a case against “the little guy”.

   A Times Literary Supplement review of the first volume of his three-volume memoirs (incl. in this lot) described his “deep human sympathies which have made him a person with whom even his most determined political enemies … have been glad to know.” He was a prolific writer, e.g. of over a dozen books.

Stalin Peace Prize

The International Stalin Peace Prize (renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize as a result of destalinization) was the Soviet Union's answer to the Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded by an international panel appointed by the Soviet government to notable individuals who the panel felt had "strengthened peace among peoples". The renamed Lenin Peace Prize is apparently still being awarded by the Russian government. After Stalin had died in March 1953, he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and Georgi Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

The Stalin Peace Prize was created in 1949 by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in honor of Josef Stalin's seventieth birthday. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Stalin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held in 1956 the prize was renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize. All previous recipients were asked to return their International Stalin Peace Prize so it could be replaced by the renamed International Lenin Peace Prize.

There was also a Stalin Prize, created in 1940, which was awarded annually to leading Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists.

          1964
Dolores Ibarruri
Rafael Alberti
Aruna Asaf Ali
Kaoru Ota
         1965
Miguel Angel Asturias
Mirjam Vire- Tuominen
Peter Ayodele Curtis Joseph
Giacomo Manzil
Jamtsarangiyn Sambuu
        1966
Herbert Warnke
Rockwell Kent
IvanMalek
Martin Niemoller
David Alfaro Siqueiros
Bram Fischer
       1967
Joris Ivens
Nguyen Thi Dinh
Jorge Zalamea
Romes Chandra
Endre Sik
Jean Effel
       1968-69
Akira Iwai (b. 1922)
Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Khaled Mohieddin
Linus Pauling
Shafie Ahmed el Sheikh (b. 1924 - d. 1971)
B.ertil Svahnstrom (b. 1907 - d. 1972)
Ludvik Svoboda
      1970-71
Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop
Ernst Busch
Tsola Dragoicheva
Renato Guttuso
Kamal Jumblatt
Alfredo Varela
      1972
James Aldridge
Salvador Allende
Leonid Brezhnev
Enrique Pastorino
      1973-74
Luis CorvaIan
Raymond Goor
Jeanne Martin-Cisse
      1975-76
Hortensia Bussi de Allende
Janos Kadar
Sean MacBride
Samora Machel
Agostinho Neto
Yannis Ritsos
     1977-78
Kurt Bachmann
Freda Yetta Brown
Angela Davis
Vilma Espin Guillois
Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon
Halina Skibniewska
     1979
Herve Bazin
Le Duan
Urho Kekkonen
Abd aI-Rahman al-Sharqawi
Miguel Otero Silva
    1980s (incomplete)
    1980-82
Mahmoud Darwish
John Morgan
Liller Seregni
Mikis Theodorakis
    1983-84
Indira Gandhi
Jean-Marie Leger
Eva Palmer
Nguyen Huu Tho
Luis Vidales
Joseph Weber
Charilaos Florakis
    1985-86
Miguel d'Escoto
Dorothy Hodgkin
Herbert Mies
Julius Nyerere
Petr Tanchev
Evan Litwack
    1988
Abdul Sattar Edhi
    1990
Nelson Mandela

(from Current Digest of the Soviet Press, December 1954)
OUTSTANDING FIGHTERS FOR PEACE
By Academician D. V. Skobeltsyn
Academician Skobeltsyn is chairman of the Committee on International Stalin Prizes for the Consolidation of Peace among the Nations.

ON the 75th birthday of J. V. Stalin, great fighter for peace, a decision was announced on new awards of International Stalin Prizes for the Consolidation of Peace among the Nations. The International Stalin Prize Committee, consisting of representatives of the democratic public of various countries, has awarded prizes to a new group of outstanding fighters for peace and friendship among the nations.
D. N. PRITT, Q.C.
Among the active fighters for peace who have been awarded prizes is D. N. Pritt, a prominent public figure in Britain and chairman of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. A prominent specialist in jurisprudence, he became a K.C in 1927, and for many years has taken an active part in political and public life in Britain. His services in exposing the German war criminals are well known. In his pamphlet on the war in Korea he revealed the true character of the events in that country.

ALAIN LE LEAP....

(from New York Times, 21 December 1954)

NINE WILL RECEIVE STALIN PEACE PRIZE

   LONDON, Dec. 20 (AP)   The Moscow radio announced tonight the winners of nine Stalin international peace prizes for 1954. Tomorrow is the seventy-fifth anniversary of Stalin's birth.
   The prize is worth 100,000 rubles. The soviet Union values the ruble at 25 cents, although its purchasing power is much lower.
   The broadcast said the following had been selected:

   Alsin Le Leap, secretary general of the Communist-dominated French General Confederation of Labor.
   D.N Pritt, a British lawyer, who has been prominent in "peace partisan" activities. He has defended Jomo Kenyatta, the African leader who has been accused of inspiring Mau Mau terrorism, and Gerhard Eisler, Communist defendant in United States extradition proceedings while a fugitive in Britain.
   Brethold Brecht, German poet and playwrite....