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NONVIOLENCE
surrender of the Pakistani armies to those of India and the Free Bangladesh forces.
These recent conflicts may be seen as a practical demonstration of the non-violence of the brave on the part of India, as India stopped fighting and allowed its neighbour Pakistan to realize its mistake and refrain from aggressive acts. Until the United Nations Organization becomes strong and effective and the member nations show their willingness and consent to abide by its disciplinary rules and regulations, and until the big powers refrain from exercising their right of veto in upholding the Charter of Human Rights, there will be no guarantee to safe-guard the liberty of weaker nations. The necessity of maintaining efficient defensive forces cannot be waived if there is no hope of stopping present and future wars. In the absence of any effective control by the U. N. O., nations of the world to-day seized with the lust for power and possessions and with their outlook warped by personal, national, racial, religious and ideological self-interest, are engaged in a race for building up their military power without any limit. This has led to the waging of the last two world wars and portends that of a third one with dreadful nuclear missiles and weapons. The political consequences of such an attitude of mind has been a widespread indifference to the moral values of life and a justification of many inhuman cruelties and barbarities prepetrated in the name of national progress and national security in many countries of the world.
The very powerlessness of the United Nations
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