Date:03/05/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/05/03/stories/2008050352450903.htm

Miscellaneous - This Day That Age

dated May 3, 1958: Arms menace

Mr. G.L. Mehta, the retiring Indian Ambassador to Washington, said on April 30 that the world is waiting for constructive acts of statesmanship to control, and eventually stop, the arms race. Making his last public speech before returning to India, he said: “What will it matter who was right and who was wrong when no human beings have survived? Under the impetus of the mutual distrust and fear, which both cause and are caused by the arms race, the objectives of diplomatic negotiations and differences between nations are lost sight of, while bombs, warheads, rockets and missiles tend to become ends in themselves.”