... collapse of civilisation and perhaps eventually something even that could be described as the suicide of the human race. Accordingly, the League of Nations disappeared but was replaced by the United Nations Organisation which now stands in the forefront of the world and struggles towards some kind of secure permanence and success in the great and far-reaching endeavour on which depends the world's future... world that might possibly subvert the work done. As regards the actual conditions of the moment it may even be admitted that most men nowadays look with dissatisfaction on the defects of the United Nations Organisation and its blunders and the malignancies that endanger its existence and many feel a growing pessimism and regard with doubt the possibility of its final success. This pessimism it is unnecessary... general needs of the race and its need of self-preservation could well be relied on to make it inevitable. There is nothing then in the development of events since the establishment of the United Nations Organisation, in the sequel to the great initiation at San Francisco of the decisive step towards the creation of a world-body which might end in the establishment of a true world-unity, that need discourage ...
... sequel. Accordingly, the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations Organisation which now stands in the forefront of the world and struggles towards some kind of secure permanence and success in the great far reaching endeavour on which depends the world's future. Emphasising the importance of the United Nations Organisation, Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1949 (in a Postscript Chapter to his The... emergence and development of an enterprise which has become a necessity for the progress and perhaps the very existence of the race. 7 Page 131 Following the idea of the United Nations Organisation, Sri Aurobindo foresees the development of a World-State without exclusions and on a principle of equality into which consideration of size and strength would not enter. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo ...
... devastating Wars swept over the globe and they were accompanied or followed by revolutions with far reaching consequences. A League of Nations was formed, but broke down after some time; the United Nations Organisation came to be built, but its deficiencies and weaknesses are forcing leaders to think of radical changes in its Constitution and working; even its replacement by a World State, which may be... new foundation of universal wideness, voluntary optimism and unfailing goodwill. In a significant statement made in 1967, U Thant , Page 54 the then Secretary General of the United Nations Organisation, expressed quite clearly these two imperatives. He had stated: "That a fraction of the amounts that are going to be spent in 1967 on arms could finance economic, social, national and... force of idea remained active behind the succeeding years, including the terrible years of the Second World War. That War stirred the deeper depths of humanity and its leaders, and the United Nations Organisation came into existence. Today, this Page 56 Organisation stands in the forefront of the world and struggles towards some kind of secure permanence and success. It is also significant ...
... collapse of civilisation and perhaps eventually something even that could be described as the suicide of the human race. Accordingly, the League of Nations disappeared but was replaced by the United Nations Organisation which now stands in the forefront of the world and struggles towards some kind of secure permanence and success in the great and far-reaching endeavour on which depends the world's future... world that might possibly subvert the work done. As regards the actual conditions of the moment it may even be admitted that most men nowadays look with dissatisfaction on the defects of the United Nations Organisation and its blunders and the malignancies that endanger its existence and many feel a growing pessimism and regard with doubt the possibility of its final success. This pessimism it is unnecessary... general needs of the race and its need of self-preservation could well be relied on to make it inevitable. There is nothing then in the development of events since the establishment of the United Nations Organisation, in the sequel to the great initiation at San Francisco of the decisive step towards the creation of a world-body which might end in the establishment of true world-unity, that need discourage ...
... expressed in our institutions, we shall have fulfilled what is expected of us. "We can take advantage of three important events of our recent times. "The coming into being of the United Nations Organisation is momentous even though it has certain basic deficiencies which need to be rectified as early as possible. "The universal declaration of human rights adopted by the UNO on 10th December ...
... parochialism pullulating on the earth, regional and ideological -imperial blocs, nations, groups, parties have chequered ad infinitum, have balkanised human commonalty. We badly needed a United Nations Organisation, but we are facing the utmost possible disunity. The lesson is that politics alone will not save us, nor even economics. The word has gone forth: what is required is a change of heart. ...
... much conscious of the shortcomings of the organization just like he had been of those of its predecessor, the League of Nations. ‘The League of Nations disappeared but was replaced by the United Nations Organisation which now stands in the forefront of the world and struggles towards some kind of secure permanence and success in the great and far-reaching endeavour on which depends the world’s future ...
... imperative need of directing our efforts to generate and strengthen the forces of understanding, harmony and peace. This realisation constitutes the core of the intention to establish United Nations Organisation and its varied agencies. And when UNESCO declared that defences of peace should be built in the minds of men, there was a clear recognition of the necessity to develop the positive concept ...
... things demand a radical change in human nature, and humanity does not seem to be prepared to respond to the demands of this change. In 1967, U Thant the then Secretary-General of the United Nations Organisation had stated the need for this change. He had declared: That a fraction of the amounts that are going to be spent in 1967 on arms could finance economic, social, national and world ...
... injure the future of humanity. It is greatly concerned with humanism, it is international in its sweep, and it has given a decisive turn to the realisation of human unity. The birth of the United Nations Organisation and its international agencies owes much to the endeavours of this uplifting force. It feels greatly committed to the human destiny, and endeavours to create a new world order in which this ...
... parochialism pullulating on the earth, 'regional and ideological —imperial blocs, nations, groups, parties have chequered ad infinitum, have balkanised human commonalty. We badly needed a United Nations Organisation, but we are facing the utmost possible disunity. The lesson is that politics alone will not save us, nor even economics. The word, has gone forth: what is required is a change of heart. ...
... still reign upon earth. Grant that those who so valiantly struggled and suffered for Thy Victory, may see the true and genuine results of that victory realised in the world. 10 The United Nations Organisation was being brought into existence, but this too - like the League of Nations after the First World War - was only a concert of the victorious powers. Already USA and USSR were enacting co ...
... rules them, can alone help the progress of peaceful reforms in their administration. This was of course written long before the establishment of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Organisation, after the first and second world wars respectively. Sri Aurobindo must have been in favour of such attempts to put down war by international agreement and international force, but should ...
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