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dated October 26, 1957: Role of the U.N.

Prime Minister Nehru said in New Delhi on October 24 that in order to ensure world peace it was essential that the United Nations Organisation should be strengthened. Mr. Nehru was addressing a public meeting at Ramlila Grounds held to observe United Nations Day. The Prime Minister expressed the hope that the United Nations, which had averted one or two major wars since it was founded, would succeed in finding a peaceful solution for the Syrian-Turkish crisis. This crisis had posed a serious threat to peace inasmuch as the two major powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, had “come out in the open” to back Turkey and Syria respectively. Any new war would only lead to destruction because of the new weapons forged by the big powers which would make the last war look like “child’s play.”

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