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group. If disputes have been settled on the plane of force, it is because social life has been moving on the corresponding planes of hatred, frustration and exploitation. They have permeated international relationships, internal organisation, literature and outlook so deeply. Force and fraud are still writ so largely over associated life that reform must be anchored to the first principles. A tremendous effort, rational and moral, is needed to brin ghome to the world that a way out of the present strife into universal peace and welfare lies in revising human relationships so as to substitute the principle of non-voilence ( sfēHT) for that of force.
Lesson of Experience in International Affairs.
The experience of the League of Nations, set up in 1919, and that of disarmament commissions and conferences, which continued upto 1934, demonstrated that the elimination of war, which is really a symptom, depends on the elimination of the deeper cause--the violence_which underlies group adjustments all round. A move to the higher plane of non-violence implies that the whole idea of domination of a group over another be given up in the realm of politics and economics and the principles of freedom of growth and equality of opportunity be recognised in a practical form for all peoples, in Europe or America, Asia or Africa.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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