dated February 26, 1951: Nobel Peace Prize

It was announced in Oslo on February 23 that Prime Minister Nehru, the U.N. Secretary-General, Mr. Trygve Lie and President Robert Hutchins of Chicago University were among the 28 individuals nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for 1951.

Nehru's Peace Efforts

Mr. George V. Ferguson, Editor of the Montreal Daily Star, told the Electrical Club in Montreal on February 21 that India's Prime Minister, Mr. Nehru, brought ``every pressure he could bear on Red China'' during the struggle in the United Nations with Peking over the Korean issue. Mr. Ferguson, a Canadian delegate to the Institute of Pacific Relations Conference in Lucknow last year, said: ``The Indian Prime Minister openly deplored the tactics of Red China.

``Some day the world will know that during all the time that Mr. B.N. Rau was fighting the case at Lake Success for negotiation with Peking, Mr. Nehru himself was bringing every pressure he could bear on Red China, urging Mao Tse-tung to abate the extremities of his actions and his words and to negotiate as man of peace.

``The Indian pressure was not at all exerted against us, Mr. Nehru, with his idealism, was honestly playing the role of mediator with both sides. No one will know, for a very long time, if he would have been beaten in any case by the stubborn obstinacy of Communism itself. On this I pass no judgement. We cannot tell.''

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