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dated October 25, 1957: Advances in science

President Rajendra Prasad, in a message on the 12th anniversary of the United Nations in New Delhi on October 23 urged the nations of the world to come to “some workable understanding” to ensure peaceful use of the latest inventions, failing which, he said, mankind would be faced with annihilation. Dr. Rajendra Prasad said that the recent developments in the field of science provided an appropriate background for an earnest discussion by the U.N. of the problem of disarmament and suspension of nuclear weapon tests. A discussion of the proposals for disarmament keeping the welfare and survival of mankind above everything else was “the least tribute we can pay to the founders of the U.N. as also the best way of honouring the noble sentiments embodied in its Charter.”

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