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PEACE PRIZE WINNER.

31. HENRI LA FONTAINE. — i The recipient of the Peace Prize foP 1913, M. Henri La Fontaine, is weil known to workers in iho peaco Movement all the world over. Twenty-fivo years ago lie came under the inlln.en.co of the late Hodgson Tract, president, of iho Into'rnationiil Arbitration and Peace Association, and founded the Belgian Association on its lines. For many years he has hfliin president of the International Peace Bureau,'which has its headquarters in Berne, and ho rejru'mrWattends the international peace congresses and meetings of the lntci-Par-lianientary Dnion, Ho is inn authority on international law, and author of "Histoire Documentaire des Arbitrages Internationals, M published in 1002.' A member of tha Belgian Senate, M. La Fontaine is esteemed by all parties, but lie hiiu'ielf supports the Socialists, and as such was present in November, 191*2, at tlto tnoiudrablo special Socialist Congress at Bale, convened to call upon the workers of Europe to prevent the possibility of e European war when Austria threatened intervention in the Balkans. At tlto opening of the I'eaeo I'aiaeo at tho Hague to members of tk> Peace Congress last August, M. La Fontaine delivered a most eloquent_addrws justifying tho pacifists in their wnrlt for tho establishment of an internatro!;al_ court of justice.—"Manchester "Guardian."

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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 3

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PEACE PRIZE WINNER. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 3

PEACE PRIZE WINNER. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1966, 24 January 1914, Page 3

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