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world tension includes "tensions within and among nations."1 It is no use denying the great dangers that threaten our present generation. The riven atom, uncontrolled, can only be a growing menace to us all.3 One atom bomb killed more than seventy thousand people, but now it is not a question of one or two or even hundred but of hundreds of millions of them. Prof. Yusuki Tsrurumi says in agony -- "Japan's mind is disturbed profoundly. We face war — how can we avert it ??4 Therefore while inaugurating Silver Jubilee Session of Indian Philosophical Congress Dr. K. N. Katju fears that the story of Mahābhārata it seems is being re-enacted all over again. In the conclusion of that war there was neither the victim to lament his defeat nor the victor to celebrate the victory.5 Refering to Korea he observed, their towns and villages, their land and dwellings are being trampled under foot and destroyed over and over again by invading troops and retreating troops and human life there seems to have lost all sanctity. So that the war of liberation has been turned into a war of annihilation. Surely this is completely a new version of liberation. Though the third-war might mean virtual end of all that western civilization stands for, yet there is inspite of all this an imminent danger of
1. “Solution of tensions within and among nations” — Indian
National Commission for cooperation with Unesco decides
this as the main topic of discussion. 2. Prof. Tucci : My Approach to Gandhi - referred above. 3. Robert Oppenhimer, Ex-chairman, Advisory Atomic
Council — under Article, 'Atomic Weapons and American
Policy', quoted in Foreign Affairs, July 1953. 4. Prof. Tsrurumi, Japanese delegate to the Gandhian
seminar, vide his paper to the Seminar. 5. Dr. K. N. Katju : Inaugural Address to Silver Jubilee
Session of Indian Philosophical Congress. 6. Dr. K. N. Katju : Ibid. 7. Dr. K. N. Katju : Ibid.
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