Passages with Solved Precis Our policy is one of peaceful settlement of international disputes, though we are obliged to resist aggression when it occurs. Our resistance is to be carried out without or hatred. Our faith in ahimsa does not mean cowardly submission to aggression. It is resistance to evil without violence in our minds or hatred in our hearts. While non-violence does not mean surrender to evil, it also requires...

Passages with Solved Precis To deal with this problem it will be necessary to find ways of preventing an increase in world population. If this is to be done otherwise than by wars, pestilences, and famines, it will demand a powerful international authority. This authority should deal out the, world’s food to the various nations in proportion to their population at the time of the establishment of the authority. If any...

Passages with Solved Precis In the meantime, the impulse which Clive had given to the administration of Bengal was constantly becoming fainter and fainter. His policy was to a great extent abandoned; the abuses which he had suppressed began to revive; and at length the evils which a bad government had engendered were aggravated by one of those fearful visitations which the best government cannot avert. In the summer of 1770,...

Passages with Solved Precis Our aim is to train up human being for freedom, for justice for peace. How shall it be done? In his recent book, Which Way to Peace? Bertrand Russell has written a significant paragraph on this subject. ‘Schools’, he says, have very greatly improved during the present century, at any rate in the countries which have remained democratic. In the countries which have military dictatorship, including Russia,...

Passages with Solved Precis There will be those who say, who may try to insinuate, that we were opposed to a policy of peace. The answer is the same. We want peace with rights, with sovereignty and dignity. We want peace without renouncing our position as revolutionaries, without renouncing the revolution No one will doubt that when we fought the invaders at Playa Giron, when we fought those who bombed us,...

Passages with Solved Precis “It would be fundamentally wrong to enter military alliances or allow India’s defence to be under-written by any other country. That would mean losing our self-respect. All the aircraft of the world cannot take the place of a stout people determined to resist… There have been changes in the cold war pattern, cracking of alliances both among Western nations and Communist countries and Sino-Soviet differences are deeper...

Passages with Solved Precis “It seems to me that the time is now ripe to put an end to nuclear tests once and for all-to put a full stop. Now is the most suitable time to do it.”  “The period of great acuteness and tension in the Caribbean is over. Now we are free directly to deal with other urgent international questions and in particular with the long outstanding problem… of...

Passages with Solved Precis “For international order and security, it is essential to fulfil certain conditions. In the first place, Imperialism in many forms must be abolished. For Imperialism is the source of unjust oppression of one race by another. The persecution of the Arabs in Algeria and of the people of Cyprus in that island are living examples of this fact. The danger of war will not be over so...