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Back home from his tour of China, Prime Minister Nehru said in Calcutta on November 2 that a disciplined people was the greatest national asset in Asia - "greater than even the atom bomb." Addressing a public meeting attended by about a million people, he reiterated that China did not desire war. He said India had much to learn from China. "We may have a population of 36 crores and China may have 60 crores of people. But a country's strength did not lie in its numerical might but in discipline and unity. What counted most was quality and not quantity. Only a self-disciplined people, putting their minds to work, could build a resurgent India to consolidate the hard-won freedom. Unity was China's strength. India and China have historical associations and we have to preserve and strengthen that friendship." Amidst deafening cheers, Mr. Nehru said the Chinese people gave him a "mighty welcome," which was comparable in its love, enthusiasm and fervour to the welcome the Indian people gave him. "The people of China gave me a mighty welcome not because I am Jawaharlal with any special ability, but because I am the Prime Minister of India for which the Chinese people cherish in their hearts the greatest of love, and with which they want to maintain the friendliest of relations. In short, they welcomed India and not Nehru. My `historic visit' was prompted more by a strong urge in me to discover that great country which has had thousands of years of unbroken cultural and historic association with India."
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