RAMMANOHAR LOHIA

It was Lohia's contention that Satyagraha should be used not only at the national level but also in international politics. He longed to do away with the distinctions between the high and the low at the international level. As a first step he argued that no nation should have special rights in the United Nations Organization. It was his desire that all the poor countries in the world should stand together. Towards the end of the Second World War America dropped the atom bomb not on Germany but on Japan-an Asian country. He said that this proved the racial prejudices of the Western nations.

Poverty and progress are not the problems of any single country. While half the world is wallowing in wealth, the other half is struggling in poverty, ignorance, disease and inequality. In such a world peace and tranquility are impossible. The developed nations of the world ought to do their duty by the developing nations. If there is famine in any corner of the world, the other nations should race to help the people. Lohia used to say that there should be an international welfare fund and an international organization.