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dated October 29, 1957: Humane values

Dr. Rajendra Prasad, inaugurating the 19th International Red Cross Conference at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on October 28, expressed the hope that its deliberations would be inspired by most practical realism and in the highest humanitarian traditions of the Red Cross. The President said: “The present conference is meeting at a crucial period of the world’s history, in a revolutionary era of scientific advancement, with the advent of atomic and nuclear energy and the attempted conquest over space. These achievements would have been hailed as great gifts of modern science to mankind but for their grave potentialities and apprehended possibility of being employed as devastating instruments of war and destruction of human race. Humanity thus seems to be groping in the dark at the cross-roads of destiny, not knowing whether man will attain mastery over his creation of scientific miracles or face extermination.”

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