... scruples. But the Mother was pleased with him and said something like: "He has a clear clean character, a nature well-disciplined, a good preparatory ground for something higher." During the Korean War of 1950-51 the Mother expressed a high opinion of General MacArthur. She considered him one of the great military figures of history, comparable to soldiers like Wellington. There was also an ...
... there— Kiran Kumari (Jiji), Sujata Nahar. And, just once, I think, he had been to the Beach road. 1950 — The Second World War was over in 1945. The world had hardly caught back its breath, the Korean War was on. This meant people’s ears were itching for news. A radio would ease the itch. But who had one? Not one of the 700-800 Ashramites of that time could boast of possessing one. We didn’t even ...
... but the end of the world war did not mean the end of the activities of the Lord of Falsehood. In June 1950, a few months before his departure, Sri Aurobindo wrote in a note to K.D. Sethna on the Korean War: “The whole affair is as plain as a pike-staff. It is the move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts [including Korea] and then of South ...
... to be daunted by defeat or by the doom that seemed to hover over man in the atomic age. A few months before he passed away, when conditions were pretty bleak because of the Cold War and the warm Korean War, because of the Indo-Pakistani imbroglio, Sri Aurobindo wrote to a disciple: "I am not disposed even now, in these dark conditions, to consider my will to help the world as condemned to failure." ...
... is as if you change your shirt,’ the Mother said. The Lord of the Nations did everything possible to redeem his threatening promise to her. In June 1950 Sri Aurobindo therefore wrote about the Korean War to K.D. Sethna, chief editor of Mother India, the periodical regarded by Sri Aurobindo as a vehicle for his thought: ‘The whole affair is as plain as a pike-staff. It is the first move in the Communist ...
... the Führer. The Cold War was at a high pitch, with the production of weapons capable of destroying not only all civilization but all life on Earth. Mao Tse-tung had become the ruler of China. The Korean War had erupted. Sri Aurobindo’s significant comment on this war to K.D. Sethna was as follows: ‘The whole affair is as plain as a pike-staff. It is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to ...
... in the Vietnamese jungle after the defeat of France, gave an impression that it was a successor to French colonialists. Furthermore, the U.S. dispatched its troops to Vietnam on the heels of the Korean War that claimed the lives of 54,000 young Americans including those not killed in action, in only five years from the end of World War II. Americans questioned the legitimacy of the Vietnam War, saying ...
... These too are now available on video cassettes. Once Henri Cartier Bresson came from France to photograph Sri Aurobindo. As a press photographer, he had made a name for himself during the Korean War. He had a very expensive Leica camera. Mother wanted to buy me a similar one. Mother wrote to Elizabeth, a disciple who Page 42 ran a centre in Mother and Sri Aurobindo's name in America ...
... less of the same opinion. . It is important to realize what the atmosphere was like in that summer of 1950. As we shall see, it was pervaded by fear — the cold war in the heart of Europe, the Korean War in Asia. And the same fear led to contrasting reactions: unity on the continent, isolationism in Britain. In some notes I made at the time, I wrote: Britain has no confidence that France and ...
... Aurobindonian "hypothetical forecast" 46 - a nation being rent by civil war - has since been justified by subsequent events like the civil war in Spain, the horrors of the partition of India, the Korean War and the prolonged agony of Vietnam. In Part Two of The Ideal of Human Unity, Sri Aurobindo views the social revolution of the human race as a development of the relations between the ...
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