International: Peacemaker

For his success in ending the war between Israel and her Arab neighbors, broad-shouldered Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunche had been showered with 40 awards and medals and 20 honorary academic degrees. One afternoon last week as Bunche, now senior director of the U.N. Trusteeship Department, was eating lunch in the delegates' dining room at Lake Success, his British secretary Mrs. Doreen Daughton dashed up with news of another honor. "I have a surprise for you," she told Ralph Bunche. "You've won the Nobel Peace Prize."

"One of the Greatest." Bunche insisted on taking Mrs....

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