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Wilson Prize. The 1926 Woodrow Wilson Foundation medal and prize of $25,000 were awarded last week to 81-year-old Republican jurist-statesman Elihu Root for his services toward the creation of the World Court.* Why does Mr. Root deserve the prize, any more than the eleven other international jurists with whom he drew up in 1920 the World Court Protocol? He suggested how the judges of the World Court could be amicably selected among the nations. That problem had everyone well stumped. Mr. Root's idea: Let the international mechanism already functioning smoothly to select the jurists of the old Hague Courtbe extended to nominate the World Court judges. Let the Assembly and Council of the League of Nations elect from the nominees. The idea now works smoothly and well. Viscount Cecil (Lord Robert) received, in 1924, the only other Wilson award ever made.
Swedish Nobel Prizes. Dynamiter Nobel placed the awarding of all his prizes except the Peace prize in the hands of his fellow Swedes. The learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University of Gottingen, and Professor Gustav Hertz, of Halle University; 1926 Physics prize to Professor Jean B. Perrin, University of Paris; 1925 Chemistry prize to Dr. Richard Zsigmondy, University of Gottingen; 1926 chemistry prize to Professor Theodore Svedverg, University of Upsala.
*The total sum of German reparations has yet to be set; but it was a great step to fix definitely the current annual reparations which had previously been thought of by the Allies as "all we can get" and by Germany as "the least we can get by with."
*The Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague.