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Reverse inscription in French, for "World Council of Peace"
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
Lazaro 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 Casanova
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
Joliot-Curie Peace Medal of the World Council of Peace, awarded to Pritt in 1969
| German peace medal of the German Peace Council (founded in 1949 as the German committee of the fighters for peace), awarded to Pritt in 1960, founded 1954; obverse shows profile of Picasso, inscription "For service to peace". |
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Awards of Outstanding International Importance to Statesmen and Heroines
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....
Medal and Testimonial Diploma from
Soviet Peace Committee, awarded to
Pritt in 1969, founded 1950, in 228 x 311
mm. folder.Obverse inscription translates as "PEACE", reverse inscription as "SOVIET PEACE COMMITTEE".
The World Council of Peace, founded in 1950, chose Frederic Joliot Curie as its first president.
"FOR SERVICE
TO PEACE,
THE GERMAN PEACE COUNCIL
AWARDS, TO
Mr. Dr. h.c. DENIS NOWEL PRITT
THE
GERMAN PEACE MEDAL
(Signature)
THE PRESIDENT
OF THE GERMAN PEACE COUNCIL
14 NOVEMBER 1960"
JURISTS FOR PEACE: 5 CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DEMOCRATIC LAWYERS, of which Pritt was president from 1949 to 1960.
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The auction record for a Stalin or Lenin Peace Prize is $126,500 (incl. 15% auction commission), in the January 2009 New York Sale conducted by Baldwin's, Dmitri Markov, (http://www.russian-medals.net/pr-nysale20_22.pdf) and others. The lot contained only the Lenin Peace Prize medal and diploma (http://www.russian-medals.net/pics/nysale22-pp121_159.pdf) of Herbert Warnke, a leading East German Communist (boss of the E. German regime's Trade Union, and member of the Politburo), whose impact outside of E. Germany was indiscernable. As Lenin Peace Prize Laureates go, Warnke must be judged overall to have been one of the least significant.
By contrast, Pritt must be judged overall as one of the most significant Peace Prize Laureates, aside from those who were outright household names, (most of them being Heads of State) e.g. Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Castro, Sukarno, Mandela, and Picasso. He was clearly one of the most significant intellectual leaders, (and by far the legal leader) of the worldwide (extreme) Left in the (middle third of) the 20th century, eclipsed (?) only by Sartre and Bertrand Russell. (It is quite striking that he did not become a Laureate until after Stalin's death!)
Warnke's set had his Peace Prize diploma, while Pritt's group does not; on the other hand, Pritt's group has a mass of interesting and significant items from numerous countries, all of which were impacted materially if not hugely by his career: Britain, Germany, Russia, Viet Nam, and Bulgaria. (He also materially impacted other countries not in the above list, e.g. Kenya, Ghana, and Tanzania.)
"Imagine" by John Lennon
A Rightist critique of Pritt (by Nick Cohen)
from http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/02/eric-hobsbawm-and-the-hitler-stalin-pact/
...the creepy figure of D. N. Pritt, KC, MP – a Wykehamist barrister who was on the wrong side of every great question of the mid-twentieth century. Despite everything, it is impossible to like him. Pritt was a type that is too common today: the two-faced civil liberties lawyer. In his time, he was Chairman of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Bentham Committee for Poor Litigants: no one seemed more dedicated to holding the British state to the highest moral standards. But while fighting for justice at home, he excused and encouraged the worst injustice abroad. In 1937 he defended Stalin’s show trials and concluded after one mockery of justice which might have pleased Saddam Hussein that the ‘case was genuine and the trial fair’....
Our comment: Leaving aside this barrage of claims (of varying merit), to assert that Pritt "was on the wrong side of every great question of the mid-twentieth century" is quite a bit much, particularly seeing how he seems to have become solidly vindicated on the issue which made him famous, (and on which he first "stuck his neck out") the Reichstag Fire.
The 1930's radicalized Pritt, as they did a good many thinking people, some of whom later paid for their naivite in the McCarthy era.
See also our comment about Pritt's support of rebels (esp. Kenyatta) vs. colonialism in Africa.
