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dated December 13, 1954: Nehru's caution

Addressing over a lakh of people at a public meeting in Lucknow on December 12, Prime Minister Nehru declared that India should not try to copy the pattern of any outside country in bringing about a Socialist State. He said he had no objection to people discussing various ideologies so long as they did not conceive of destroying the existing foundations to build a new order. He cautioned that the days of talking in the air about abstract ideologies would no longer be of any avail in the atomic age, in which the people should work unitedly both to strengthen and enrich the country. Mr. Nehru said he had seen in China a Communist State built on the conceptions of her national genius and conditions obtaining in that country. China had not copied any foreign pattern. He said that there were certain sections in India which admired the achievements of America and wanted to import ideas from there. Then there were others, particularly the Communist Party, who wanted the country to follow the Soviet pattern. He said he had no objection to the people in India benefiting by the experience of these two countries so long as they did not overlook national interests. Mr. Nehru declared that the days when Europe or America could decide the fate of Asia were gone, with the new awakening following the emergence of the two great nations, India and China.

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