dated December 4, 1950: Ensuring world peace

Press reports about the possibility of Mr. Nehru participating in the Washington talks was characterised as ``absolutely'' without foundation by the Prime Minister himself on December 3. In an informal address, to the All India Newspaper Editors Conference, in New Delhi on December 3, Mr. Nehru said that the world was facing a grave crisis and the only way he could find himself approaching the big questions before the world was ``in spirit of deep earnestness and a great deal of humility.''

Mr. Nehru said: ``I rather doubt if any country - and the biggest of them all even - has complete direction of the world's events today. They are too complicated and too big and all we can do is, first of all, to have an earnest desire for peace. If that is the dominant approach, then how are we to attain it or, at any rate, help in realising it and avoiding the terrible catastrophe of another world war?

``If you want peace among various countries, it is hardly a sensible or logical approach to go about slinging each other, irritating each other and point out the faults, errors and sins of the other.''

``Therefore, what seems to me important is that for the moment we should stop this business of running down each other and keep our feelings within ourselves and try with this new approach to find some way to stop the rot. The next step would be to consider these problems in this slightly new atmosphere and try to find some, at any rate temporary, solution for them and the further step would be to try to find a solution of longer duration.''

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