NEHRU AT RALLY IN PEKING

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27489, 25 October 1954, Page 11

NEHRU AT RALLY IN PEKING

Welcome By 18,000

Chinese

(Rec. 10.30 p.m.) , __ HONG KONG, October 23. More than 18.000 wildly cheering Chinese welcomed Mr Nehru when he attended a mass rally m his honour at Peking’s Central Park today. Peking Radio reported that the rally was presided over by the Mayor of Peking (Mr Peng Chen) and was attended by other high Chinese officials. Earlier in the morning the radio said Mr Nehru, his daughter, Mrs Indira Gandhi, and members of his mission visited a cotton .mill and the Peking *People’s Court.” The Chinese Ambassador to New Delhi (General Yuan Chung Hsien), the Indian Ambassador to Peking (Mr N. Raghavan), and other Chinese officials accompanied the Indian Prime Minister during the tour. The radio said Mr Nehru inspected everv section of a new cotton mill which has 55,000 spindles and more than 1000 looms. Mr Nehru asked the management of the mill about production and conditions in the plant, the broadcast said. The Indian Prime Minister (Mr Nehru) in his reply to a welcoming speech by the Mayor of Peking (Mr Peng Chen) said: “We desire to live in peace with the world. We bear no ill will to those who had dominated us and we find no ill will in other countries “Although we have suffered at the hands of others in past years I you will bear no grudge against them and no others will interfere with us, Peking Radio said tonight. “Each of our two countries will condition its own way by its own cir " cumstances and secure independence through peaceful methods and by peaceful settlements.

“New Equilibrium Arriving” “The balance of forces which resulted in the domination of Asia has gone and a new equilibrium is gradu ally arriving through change and turmoil. Another great revolution is gradually taking place as thousands of cTianges have taken place in social, economic and political spheres, Mr Nehru said. , , ~ “It is in the mighty contact of the present generation that we have to consider the problems of today. “Mankind is in command of tremendous forces released by atomic energy. These great forces can destroy the world and can also advance humanity through unimaginable levels of human well-being. It is this mighty choice that the world faces today. j “The choice is between peaceful progress and War. war that would be unlike the war of old. but something infinitely rash and more destructive something that may degrade human beings to the level of beasts. “There can only be one answer to this question. Only the avoidance of war is not enough. We have to remove the causes that induce war and promote goodwill. If we are to get out of this bitter circle of conflict we have to try to build a new world from cooperation. . “There must be no domination, of one class by another, of one race by another, or of one country by another.