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war.1 The result is the mounting suspicion and rivalry between the two power blocks, feverish rearmament and cold war, alternating with tipid war.2 Inspite of recent peace moves this is no gain saying the fact that the world is sharply divided into two opposing camps3 and there is an array of peace ( war ), defence ( offence ) treatises like NATO'S+ MEDO'S5 and many more yet to come out. The development of the international organisations in last fifty year recognises that disputes which arise concern many states, and that they need to be settled. So we are practically in a world bewildered by the turmoil of nationalism and war. The whole world is in the ferment. Need of a Solution
Humanity is tottering today upon the brink of the principle of self-annihilation for the lack of proper understanding which includes understanding ourselves, understanding each other. It is a time of tragic importance for the world, because even before the shadows cast by the war lifted fully, the skies have become overcast with dark threatening clouds. 10 Hence, at no period of human history man was in need of a sound
1. R. N. Kaul : Social Philosophy, “Socialist Democracy'. 2. E. Ashirvathem : 'Is Peace Possible? Indian Journal of
Political Science, Vol. XIV, No. 2, April 1952. 3. E. Ashirvathem : Ibid. 4. NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. 5. MEDO : Middle Eastern Defence Organisation. 6. James N. Hyde : Article “U. N. and the Peaceful Adjust
ment", in Proceeding of Academy of Political Science,
Vol. XXV, Jan, 1953, United Nations; Success or Failure. 7. E. H. Carr : Nationalism and After, p. 70. 8. Paul Arther Schillip : Article "On Human Understan
ding”, Silver Jubilee Number, Vol. 2, p. 107. 9. Paul Arther Schillip : Ibid. 10. Raj-pramukh of Mysore : Message to the Jubilee Session.
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