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...delegates and newsmen at the United Nations and his fellow politicians at home, India's U.N. Delegation Chairman V. K. Krishna Menon is by turns aloof, argumentative, arrogant. They would scarcely have recognized the homespun, jovial Menon who last week talked and traveled more than 4,000 miles from Kashmir in the north to the Communist-run state of Kerala, deep in the south...
Rival politicians were glum at this triumphal progress. Krishna Menon was problem enough when he had only the ear of Nehru; now that he has discovered the knack of getting India's ear as well, he may become a power threat in the Congress Party's annual convention next week in Assam...
...great spirit. He was an Indian named Krishnamurti. When Emy met him, it was a case of love at first sight-and of mistaken identity. She can write today: "I who am not in the least clairvoyant could see the face of the Lord through the face of Krishna...
Acheson also stated that we must not allow "Nehru's and Krishna Menon's talent for annoyance" to blind us to the importance of India. Commenting that their most "trying statements" were for domestic consumption, he supported a plan of "capital assistance on a loan basis." He further suggested that in Asia generally we "use imports of food to help countries through the agricultural stage by freeing farmers for industrial work...
...India's tone for the U.N. session: "The problem of Kashmir is: What right has Pakistan to be in this state? The answer to this problem is not a plebiscite." So much for Nehru's onetime promise to let the Kashmiris choose for themselves. Or, as Krishna Menon, seconding the boss, put it last week: "Our country has been invaded, and the invasion has to be vacated." Any talk of a U.N. force in Kashmir, said Menon, is "entirely out of the question," and whoever votes for it in the U.N. will be performing an "unfriendly...