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Dr. C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, addressing the Madras State Lawyers' Conference in Madras on December 30, warned against the dangers of regionalism on the one hand and a too sudden change-over from English to Hindi on the other in the realm of law. Stressing the need for developing the Hindi language suitably before introducing such a change, he said that without such a preparation, a sudden change-over at the end of the 15-year period set in the Constitution would "produce immediately ludicrous and ultimately dangerous effects." He said regionalism was "dangerous from every point of view, but suicidal from the point of view of the lawyer, his vocation, prospects and his future." Recalling his address to the All-India Lawyers' Conference at Allahabad in 1928 which he inaugurated at the invitation of Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, Dr. Ramaswami Aiyar said that what he had said on that occasion was more or less exactly what he wished to say on the present occasion too. That proved "the essential and healthy conservatism of the Bar." The passage of 26 years saw exactly the same problems in exactly the same context and in the same stage of fruition - or non-fruition. But the times required quicker decisions and more definite making-up of one's mind. An American once said: "You cannot make footprints on the sands of time by sitting down." What they were in danger of doing was sitting down and thus failing to make any footprints on the sands of time. Presiding over the conference, Mr. C. Subramaniam, Finance Minister who is in charge of Law, said lawyers should take into consideration the needs of the changing times and the case for amending the Constitution wherever it became necessary to further the objective of a welfare state set forth in the Preamble of the Constitution.
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