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...Cool. India's attack followed weeks of jingoistic dissemblance by Nehru in New Delhi's Lok Sabha (Lower House). Prodded by Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon and faced with elections in February (see box), Nehru aimed a barrage of inflated and inflammatory charges at the Portuguese. He claimed that Portuguese naval vessels had attacked an Indian fishing boat and an Indian merchant ship, and that well-armed Portuguese troops were "massing menacingly" along the 180-mile Indo-Goan border. Portugal's colonial authorities, Nehru said, were brutally oppressing the Goan people, most of whom were Hindus...
...period during which the two countries had scant contact of any kind, knew nothing of each other, had little in common. By their dogged reliance on Panch Shila in the face of Red China's repeated aggressions, said Socialist Leader Asoka Mehta in Parliament, Nehru and Defense Minister Krishna Menon created a false atmosphere of confidence in the Red Chinese and a "miasma of misunderstanding that is even today hindering us and creating a situation of a patient suffering from shock...
...march of foreign dignitaries continued. After Adenauer came Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak to discuss the Congo, and India's U.N. Delegate V. K. Krishna Menon, on orders of Jawaharlal Nehru to try to persuade President Kennedy that his cold war views are not really anti-American (he failed). But despite such affairs of state, John Kennedy's Thanksgiving week was celebrated by family festivities much like those in millions of other American homes-well, almost...
India is still capable of some strangely irrational attitudes, notably in the U.N., where Nehru's delegates still urge an immediate, uninspected, unenforceable nuclear test ban. Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon argues that Khrushchev was forced into the new Russian bomb tests by the U.S., an attitude that U.S. Delegate Arthur H. Dean acidly describes as pro-Soviet neutralism. In view of Menon's rantings, the U.S. particularly wants to explain to Nehru the military realities in Laos and South Viet...
...Thant first joined his country's U.N. delegation in 1952, was appointed permanent delegate in 1957. Among other key U.N. posts, U Thant this year served concurrently as chairman of the Development Fund, the Congo Conciliation Commission and the Afro-Asian Standing Committee on Algeria. Rejecting Krishna Menon-style neutralism, he has shown moral fiber and tact in his major assignments. He called on the U.N. to maintain law and order in the Congo, worked patiently and discreetly to end the Algerian conflict, backed the U.N. resolution condemning Russia's brutal suppression of the Hungarian uprising (though, characteristically...