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Nose Count. Meanwhile India's waspish diplomatic swami, V.K. Krishna Menon, casting himself in the role of the great mediator, told everyone that neither the troika nor the temporary Secretary-General would work. He had no plan of his own, simply kept urging compromise. "You value this organization, don't you?" he would ask unaligned delegates. "Then you'd better get the U.S. and its allies to compromise, to meet the Russians halfway...
...stately procession, the delegates rolled up to the Palais des Nations in Qeneva-the U.S.'s Dean Rusk in a black Homburg, India's smartly tailored V. K. Krishna Menon sweeping an arrogant eye over the press gallery, Russia's grinning Andrei Gromyko, China's dumpy Marshal Chen Yi, hidden first behind the curtains of his huge ZIM limousine and then behind a phalanx of small aides in crumpled clothes. Then came a call from the man who was supposed to convene the conference, Cambodia's unpredictable Prince Norodom Sihanouk. He was enjoying an excellent...
...last March of Home Minister Govind Pant. Desai, though his manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...
That settled the crisis, while raising the politicians' old complaint that Nehru is "a banyan tree under which nothing grows." It also made clear that he is not fond of any member of his Cabinet except Defense Minister Krishna Menon. One reason is personal: only Menon is Nehru's kind of intellectual, like Nehru British-educated and capable of endless speculative, theoretical sparring. The rest are relatively unsophisticated, and Nehru finds little in common with them. Above all, most do not really believe in Nehru's rather mystical brand of socialism. Desai, for instance, is openly...
...Mystic Krishna Menon (no kin to India's Foreign Minister) distressed Koestler with his custom of inviting his followers to reap the spiritual benefits of listening to "the bathroom noises of the Swami's morning toilet." Anandamayee Ma was nearly 63, but she looked like "a gypsy beauty in her forties." She played constantly with her beautiful toes, and disconcerted Koestler by giggling and writhing while she delivered her spiritual wisdom to a rapt audience...