Philip Noel-Baker

Philip Noel-Baker won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959. He created the Friends Ambulance Unit during World War I, which helped French front line fighters get medical attention. He helped in the creation of the League of Nations after the first world war and its replacement the United Nations after World War II. He was against war and studied disarmament throughout his life. He published two books about disarmament in 1936 and 1958. He captained the British Olympic track team and was the only Nobel Laureate to have won an Olympic Medal. During his Nobel Lecture he speaks about the future and the resolution of conflict. He hated war and had always wished for a future without it. His speech had a tone of Hope. Hope for what could come from the future and how humanity could be better as a whole.

Noel-Baker hated war and noted some of the mistakes humanity made throughout his life. He was angered that individuals ignored advice that could’ve prevented millions of lives being lost. Although he was angry about the past, he was hopeful about what differences could be made in the future. Noel-Baker strived to

He wants people to realize small decisions can have big impacts on the future. He use the word fate to make the reader and his listeners think about their decisions and how things could've been different as well as everything being predetermined and impossible to change. Fate means the development of events beyond a person's control, or as determined by a supernatural power. However, Noel-Baker was trying to move his listeners from the unchangeable past and work on making a better future. In a story he tells he says “Forward; again there could be no possibility of turning back” to reinforce his point that the past is permanent but this makes his listeners infer that that the future is malleable. He uses this to disregard the idea of fate and worry about the present choices that can affect the