To the editor: President Trump could have bother securing a Nobel Peace Prize for a motive not analyzed in Jackie Calmes’ column. (“Is this the way to win a Nobel Peace Prize?” Opinion, Feb. 23)
He and his most ardent advocates fail to acknowledge that the Norwegian sample in naming a Nobel laureate for peace tends to be aspirational. Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee hope the prize will assist a bunch or stimulate a outcome that might be good and long-lasting for mankind.
The Swedes, alternatively, are inclined to award the scientific and literature Nobels based mostly on the endurance and demonstrable advantages mankind reaps from the discoveries — utilizing years, even many years, of proof to have the ability to exhibit the purpose.
The Trump marketing campaign for the peace prize assumes his efforts to finish hostilities amongst nations have been “unfairly” missed. The chances are high that Norwegians view the “offers” he fashions as harshly conceived, short-term fixes that will disintegrate or trigger hurt sooner or later.
Godfrey Harris, Los Angeles
..
To the editor: Calmes very aptly compares Trump’s declare of candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s failed appeasement of Nazi Germany in 1938.
Chamberlain, at the very least, ready his nation for a attainable battle by rising army spending, which helped stall Adolf Hitler’s aerial blitz two years later. By then, Chamberlain was now not in workplace, his gesture of appeasement not having labored.
The comparability may need been much more apt if the prime minister had referred to as on Poland to capitulate after Hitler’s assault in 1939, the 12 months after the Nazis seized the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. By that point, nevertheless, Europe had seen the place appeasement led, and Britain and France declared battle on Germany in response to the assault on Poland.
Nobody needs battle, even the aggressor, who would simply as quickly assist himself to seizing what belongs to his neighbor with no combat. However typically, a battle have to be fought in self-defense. That’s why we and our allies have the North Atlantic Treaty Group.
Urging the give up of a nation that has been invaded isn’t a qualification for the Nobel Peace Prize, neither is demanding exorbitant ransom from the nation in search of to defend itself.
Invoice Seckler, Riverside
