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Why did Lester B Pearson do to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

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January 07, 2012 9:24PM

Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for helping to resolve the Suez Crisis through, among other measures, the creation of the United Nations Emergency Force. The force was the progenitor of modern peacekeeping missions. Very Serious!!

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