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...left-wing of these neutralists is Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena, a bookseller and politician who nurses a grudge against the U.S.. both for the previous machinations of the CIA and for alleged slights at the hands of U.S. diplomats. Quinim has the potential of developing into a Laotian Krishna Menon. but last week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos government-suspended last February...
...reaction of India to all of this has been curiously torpid. In his on-again, off-again role as man of peace, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has belittled the Chinese land grab. In the past, he and Defense Minister Krishna Menon have described the aggressions as "minor and petty," called the area occupied by the Chinese only "barren mountaintops where not even a blade of grass grows." Such remarks have brought angry charges against the government in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), where one opposition critic has accused Nehru and Menon of ordering India...
China's blatant resort to force finally woke India up. Slowly Menon began to build up India's defenses in the Himalayas. Krishna Menon's troop units were strengthened with thousands of additional soldiers in N.E.F.A., Sikkim and Ladakh and issued new mountain fighting equipment. Some 4,000 miles of new military roads are being laid through the slopes to ease the problem of supply; bulldozers are shaving away hillsides to straighten out the hairpin turns in old roads. Most of the mountain roads, however, are still little better than mountain-goat paths on which, says...
...small Russian test blast with the Soviets' long-awaited 58-megaton shot simply because it took place simultaneously with an earthquake in California. Recent underground tests in Nevada confirmed that earthquake confusion is possible unless seismographs are within a few hundred miles of the site. Hence the Krishna Menon plan presented at Geneva urging monitors in neutral nations near Russia would change nothing. To be above suspicion, any nuclear power must be ready to permit seismographs, accompanied by teams of trained foreign inspectors, on its soil...
...disarmament meeting, the delegates of Brazil, Burma, Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Sweden and Egypt. Many were utter novices in the murky technicalities of the cold war, but, being wooed by both East and West, they soon rallied under the leadership of India's V. K. Krishna ("The Unspeakable") Menon. Brazil's Foreign Minister Francisco San Thiago Dantas, for example, criticized the Soviet Union for last fall's tests, went right ahead to urge the U.S. to cancel its own spring series...