Word: krishnas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leary is the word for Krishna Menon. Delhi Correspondent Charles Mohr endured a scathing but brief attack on TIME during their first interview ("I don't suppose you are responsible for all the tripe that appears in TIME") but in subsequent sessions Menon relaxed, and shared with Mohr one of his birdlike lunches of puffed rice, hot salted nuts and many cups of tea. Perhaps the explanation lies in the answer Menon once gave to a scolding by Nehru's sister, Madame Pandit. "My dear girl," said Menon, "a politician may be either loved or disliked...
...Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, Defense Minister in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's Cabinet, has always inspired bitter antagonism from opponents both in and out of India. Abusive, rude and overbearing, Menon, 64, is a Western-educated intellectual who despises the West, a passionate foe of old-time colonialism who consistently dismisses or ignores the new-style Communist imperialism. Nehru values Menon highly as a friend, confidant and traveling apostle. He admires his provocative intelligence, uses him as a shock absorber to take attacks that might otherwise be directed at him or his government. "Menon is like...
...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...