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Move to nominate Beate for Nobel Peace Prize
Jerusalem Post Febuary 10, 1975 By ERNIE MEYER Jerusalem Post Reporter Moves are under way to nominate Beate Klarsfeld as a candidate for the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize, it was reliably learned yesterday. Members of the Public Committee for Beate Klarsfeld here are confident they can collect about 40 signatures from Knesset Members, university professors and other public figures to support an application to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. (While the other categories of Nobel Prizes are awarded by three Swedish institutions, the Peace Prize is given by the Norwegian Committee.) It is felt that Beate Klarsfeld deserves the prize for her work in bringing Nazi war criminals to Justice, which culminated in the gratification by the German Bundestag last month of the Franco-German acrcord on the retrial of war criminals. A more recent aspect of her work are her efforts to get the Arab countries to adopt a more rerasonable attitude towards Israel and thus to promote peace. Members of the Beate Klarsfeld Committee are now canvassing senior professors at the Hebrew, Tel Aviv and Bar-Ilan Universities, three institutions which in the past have shown their support for Mrs. Klars-feld's work. The 1971 Peace Prize was awarded to German Chancellor Willy Brandt for his policies of reconciliation with World War II enemies in Communist East Europe. In 1972 there was no award and in 1973 it was split between U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnam's Po-litburo member Le Duc Tho for arranging the Vietnamese cease-fire (Le Duc Tho refused his share). The 1974 prize was shared by former Japanese Prime Minister Eisa-ku Sato and former Irish Foreign Minister Sean MacBride. The cash attached to the prize has been fluctuating according to the financial state of the awarding fund. Last year it was $123,000 (IL738,000). |
