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RUSSIAN MEDALS. ORDERS OF THE USSR. Joliot-Curie Peace Medal of the World Council of Peace documented Set to Denis Nowell Pritt, 1969 The Set includes:
• Gold (10k) Joliot-Curie Peace Medal. 17 gm, 29 mm. Bust left of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the famous Nobel Physics Laureate who led the World Council of Peace from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1958 / Dove, French legend World Council of Peace.
• Award Diploma, 220 x 311 mm, which slips into a folder through a cord which wraps vertically across the folder binder, signed by the General Secretary of the World Council of Peace. The Gold Medal of Peace was founded in 1951. It was renamed in 1959 the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace, to honor Joliot-Curie as its first president. As of 2009, the World Council of Peace had issued a total of 168 Peace and other medals, but this specimen is the first ever offered for auction in the Western World. Also included:
• B&W photograph of Pritt wearing the Joliot-Curie Peace Medal and other medals, with Walter Ulbricht.
• Pamphlets and booklets: The Search for Peace, by D.N. Pritt (1952); The Story of The World Council of Peace (1962); the World Peace Council List of Members, 1970. The World Peace Council is the Soviet-fronted affiliate of the U.S. Peace Council. It describes itself as a "an anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action." It is a non-governmental organization (NGO) member of the United Nations. The WPC was founded in Prague during a "Peace Congress" sponsored by the Soviets and their Czech and other Eastern European satellites. It was headquartered in Helsinki, Finland until The 1990s when it moved to Greece. Planned and controlled by the International Department of the Communist Party of the USSR, The WPC claimed to represent 600 million "organizers for peace" worldwide. It declined during Gorbachev's tenure in office, but has revived in recent years. The most recent Assembly of the WPC took place in April 2008 in Caracas, Venezuela, involving more than 280 peace delegates from 123 Organizations from 83 countries. Condition: Choice and problem-free
Estimate: US$ 10,000
• Gold (10k) Joliot-Curie Peace Medal. 17 gm, 29 mm. Bust left of Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the famous Nobel Physics Laureate who led the World Council of Peace from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1958 / Dove, French legend World Council of Peace.
• Award Diploma, 220 x 311 mm, which slips into a folder through a cord which wraps vertically across the folder binder, signed by the General Secretary of the World Council of Peace. The Gold Medal of Peace was founded in 1951. It was renamed in 1959 the Joliot-Curie Medal of Peace, to honor Joliot-Curie as its first president. As of 2009, the World Council of Peace had issued a total of 168 Peace and other medals, but this specimen is the first ever offered for auction in the Western World. Also included:
• B&W photograph of Pritt wearing the Joliot-Curie Peace Medal and other medals, with Walter Ulbricht.
• Pamphlets and booklets: The Search for Peace, by D.N. Pritt (1952); The Story of The World Council of Peace (1962); the World Peace Council List of Members, 1970. The World Peace Council is the Soviet-fronted affiliate of the U.S. Peace Council. It describes itself as a "an anti-imperialist, democratic, independent and non-aligned international movement of mass action." It is a non-governmental organization (NGO) member of the United Nations. The WPC was founded in Prague during a "Peace Congress" sponsored by the Soviets and their Czech and other Eastern European satellites. It was headquartered in Helsinki, Finland until The 1990s when it moved to Greece. Planned and controlled by the International Department of the Communist Party of the USSR, The WPC claimed to represent 600 million "organizers for peace" worldwide. It declined during Gorbachev's tenure in office, but has revived in recent years. The most recent Assembly of the WPC took place in April 2008 in Caracas, Venezuela, involving more than 280 peace delegates from 123 Organizations from 83 countries. Condition: Choice and problem-free
Estimate: US$ 10,000