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...fast enough. One journalist at the U.N. gets so exercised at the mere sight of Menon that he must leave the room whenever Menon comes in. While he feels persecuted, he also manages to believe that he is greatly liked, has told interviewers: "I suppose you wonder why Krishna Menon is so popular...
...Hell." All five major parties are involved in Krishna Menon's re-election fight in North Bombay. In an unlikely coalition, the Swatantra, Jana Sangh, and Praja Socialist parties are backing Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, 74, a lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism...
...money of a poor starving nation. I charge him with the neglect of the defense of the country against the aggression of Communist China. I charge him with having lent his support to totalitarian regimes against the will of the people." Kripalani supporters have circulated a pamphlet titled "Krishna Menon-Danger to India" that calls Menon a "crypto-Communist...
Menon was close to Communist front groups but never joined the party. Says a friend today: "The Communists thought that they were using Menon. Krishna thought he was using them." He had a falling out with the Labor Party over his Red flirtations, resigned in 1941 when the Laborites voted not to press for Indian independence until after the war. "They weren't bad people." he says, with an inflection that makes them sound worse than idiots and not quite so bad as lepers. "Just moderates...
...visit to London, she was told by High Commissioner Menon: "You will not give interviews to the press unless I or one of my staff is present. I am ambassador here, not you." Mme. Pandit protested to her brother about Menon's arrogance, but to no avail. "Krishna can be both charming and irritating," she says. "But it's about three-fourths of one and one-fourth the other...