Peace, 1951-1970.V.3

Nobel lectures including presentation speeches and laureates' biographies
Vol.-3

Léon Jouhaux can look back upon a long life of work and struggle to elevate the working classes-and first of all to improve their conditions. To fight through the trade unions to raise the standard of living of the working class is an important and noble thing to do. But many others have devoted themselves to such work, and that alone would not have brought him here today to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. He is here because from his earliest years he has time after time thrown himself into the fight for peace and against war, doing so in the International Federation of Trade Unions, in the International Labor Office, the League of Nations, the United Nations, and the European Movement. Cooperation reaching across national fron tiers and the removal of social and economic inequalities both within nations and between nations have for him been the most important means of com bating war. But he has had an even broader objective: to mold a social environment capable of breeding what he calls the man of tomorrow, the man who will be able to create a society in which war is no longer possible.