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Nobel Peace Prize: Hits, Misses, Obama and Gandhi

Atlanta Mike Pix_Press_Club_189_-_Version_2The Nobel Peace Prize, like other awards shows, often produces strange history.  Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939.  That is about as strange as it gets.  But there has been controversy about recipients and several who were never honored since the first Nobel Peace Prize way back in 1901.

The foremost example is probably Mahatma Gandhi – the Indian national leader.  Gandhi was nominated five times between 1937 and 1948, the fifth nomination coming just days before his murder.  Why Gandhi never won remains baffling today and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee has done nothing to correct that oversight in more than sixty years since his death. Read more »

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