The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement April 3 1949

That act the one hand was one more proof of the inability of formal' democracy to cope with the problems of the post-war world;' and on the other hand it sealed the fate of democracy in India. [...] While the Russians - are to help with technical advice and equipment in the further development of the Upper Silesian heavy industry they favour on the whole the development of the light rather than of the heavy industries in Eastern Europe. [...] It is therefore futile for diplmats to seek to shape the figure of concord in the perishable clay of treaties if the educationist continues to model the spirit of the mighty into the countenance of despotism or to carve* into the minds of the weak the features of abnegation. [...] In pondering over the present world crisis we realise that the discords of the time constitute the most eloquent prbof of the distress of the peoples in their efforts to attain at one bound to the three aims: liberty equality fraternity proclaimed by the French Revolution. [...] In other words the Whole and the individual the universe and the atom the discourse of the ages and the syllable of a moment.