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dated November 14, 1957: Dangers of cold war

Prime Minister Nehru warned that the world, which had arrived at the inter-planetary age, stood on the verge of total disaster at the very moment when it had tremendous power to bring in a measure of happiness and well-being for the people of the world. He was inaugurating the fourth ILO Asian Regional Conference at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on November 13. Mr. Nehru said that the world could be saved from disaster only by getting out of the cold war atmosphere where “the act of some fool or knave or some excited individual, even apart from Governments, might do something which step by step would lead the world into conflict.” Commending the adoption of Mahatma Gandhi’s emphasis on right means to solve problems, he said that Mahatma Gandhi had once expressed his ambition to wipe out every tear from every eye.

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