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BACKGROUND
so Mankind has never had much difficult times of storm and stress as at present. It has witnessed the horrors of the two great World Wars; the second being more terrible and of far greater dimensions than the first. Those who had to pass through this terrible ordeal, even now get stunned and unnerved by the mere thought of it. The dropping of Atom Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the greatest tragedy of the time which one cannot forget. Even now the clouds of the Cold War are gathering thick and fast on the horizon. The deadly weapons and the engines of destruction that are being invented everyday have converted this world into a vast powder magazine. Just a chance spark might ignite the fires of hell which may prove a holocaust for the enire world, and all this is not improbable, Stil! it is creditable that man, while, living in the midst of these fiery times, has all hope, faith, patience and courage, and believes to survive through. He is ever after a quest for his path and is trying to forge one for himself. From the very day, he came into the world, he is engaged in this deadly struggle for existence.
From the ashes of the First World War, there arose phoenix-like, the League of Nations, which offered and inspired hope in the hearts of warweary and fearful humanity. In the wake of the blood-curdling horrors of the Second World War, there came into being the United Nations' Organisation. However imminent and lowering may be the clouds of the Third World War, yet we cannot but admit that the New Organisation of the United Nations is much more effective and stronger for securing the ends of peace and the means of defence than the League. It has also greater potentialities to extinguish the flames of war and is more effective than its predecessor, the League. If on the one hand, the means of wholesale destruction are mounting high like the mighty Himalayas, yet on the other hand, the power to resist them is also spreading sky-like in the heart of man enabling him to meet the challenge.
After the First World War, there could be a rape of a small country like Ethiopia before the very eyes of the League, just as the unrobing of Daropdi in the court of Kurvas, in the very presence of the Pandva brothers. But today, the repetition of such acts of agression though not an impossibility is yet a highly difficult thing. People can now raise their voice against it and the United Nations' Organisation is strong enough to force halt to the aggression and secure sanctity for the cease-fire lines. The happenings in Korea, Indo-China, Egypt and Hungary bear ample testimony
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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