Kohima, September 18 (DIPR): Five numbers of live hand grenades and a rusted helmet were found in Raj Bhavan compound while digging in the garden on 14-09-2012. The grenades were handed over to the bomb disposal squad for diffusing. The location of Raj Bhavan, Kohima was the main battle field area during the II World War. In the past also huge quantities of hand grenades, rifles, soldiers’ kit etc. were found besides full human skeletons during the construction of buildings in Raj Bhavan compound. It may be recalled that World War II caused widespread death and destruction throughout the world. Estimates vary but more than 6 crore people died making it the deadliest conflict in human history.
The then President of the United State of America (General) Eisenhower - who led the US forces during II World War, in his “Chance for Peace” address in 1953 said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are hungry and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This World in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 populations. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people… This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”
On another occasion he had said, “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.”
It has also been said regarding the World Wars, “Use of jungle logic instead of human reason in settling disputes will restore the earth to a jungle. If not brothers in life, then brothers in violent death.
War & crimes never pay. The billions of dollars that went up in the smoke of explosive nothingness would have been sufficient to have made a new world, one almost free from disease and completely free from poverty. Not an earth of fear, chaos, famine, pestilence, the ‘Danse macabre’, but one broad land of peace, prosperity and widening knowledge. Let Nations ally themselves no longer with death, but with life; not with destruction, but with construction; not with hate but with the creative miracles of love.”
“Resort to force in the Great War (I) failed to bring tranquility,” Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of U.S.A. pointed out. “Victory and defeat were alike sterile. That lesson the world should have learned.”
“The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind, “Lao-Tzu - the ancient Chinese Philosopher - taught. “The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.”
