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dated 1st June, 1952: Eisenhower hands over

On May 30th, General Dwight D. Eisenhower handed over the Supreme Allied Command to General Mathew B. Ridgway in Paris before returning to the United States to enter the Presidential election campaign. In his last statement to the press, shortly before the handing over ceremony, General Eisenhower warned against complacency and misunderstanding in Western Europe. Answering a question on the greatest dangers to the West, he said, when a country provided material aid as America was doing, ``you have to watch very carefully that misunderstanding do not arise.'' The second danger, he said, was under-rating the possibility of incidents "anywhere along that vast perimeter that we call the Iron Curtain.'' Such incidents could have very distressing effect. A third was local thinking. It was a global struggle between freedom and regimentation, General Eisenhower said. Nations must not be preoccupied with their own local areas. A fourth danger was any tendency towards complacency. Gen Eisenhower said some people thought there might be a danger in the growing strength of the West and believed the West might become aggressive.

Propagation of Hindi

Inaugurating the Parliamentary Hindi Association in New Delhi, Mr. Nehru said a language could grow and flower only when it was intimately linked with the people in every branch of their lives. He warned protagonists of Hindi that if they sought to impose Hindi on others in a spirit of compulsion, they were bound to fail. A language, which wanted to remain a live language, must be very "receptive", Mr. Nehru said. The secret of the popularity and vigour of English was that this language acquired as many as 5000 words every year. He was of the opinion that the words used by the common people must be included in the language because they gave the language life and vigour. Everything, be it language or political policy, was judged by the extent to which it liberated the mental, physical and intellectual powers of the people.

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