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...struggle over the succession continues. Leftists, led by the discredited Krishna Menon, still hope to boost Daughter Indira into power, but she may well settle for taking over her father's second job as External Affairs Minister. At the moment, a trio of right-leaning moderates are in control: Home Minister G. L. Nanda, Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and Minister without Portfolio Lai Bahadur Shastri...
...That Big Clown." Seeking well-known names for his pulpit, Glenesk has lured to Spencer speakers as different as Theologian Paul Tillich and India's agnostic ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon. His own arts-conscious sermons are more likely to refer to Edward Albee than to Cain and Abel...
...possession of Ladakh. India has come to trust China, although not necessarily the Soviet Union, a little less than formerly, and the Western powers, although definitely not Pakistan, a little more. Life in the U.N. General Assembly is a little simpler for those diplomats who found Krishna Menon particularly offensive. But neither a major realignment of Indian policy nor a serious outburst of Chinese expansionism has occurred...
...government's case was not notably helped by Krishna Menon, who, in his first major speech in Parliament since he was sacked as Defense Minister last winter, made the curiously unguarded admission that the government's nonalignment policy was based, not on principle, but merely on "our desire to keep our skins whole and entire...
...censure motion was sponsored by Nehru's most outspoken political foe, stooped, acerbic J. B. Kripalani, a political independent who was returned to Parliament only two months ago in a surprising by-election victory, after having been swamped by now discredited ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon in last year's general election. Kripalani proposed to censure the government among other things, over official cor ruption, spiraling food prices and prohibitively high taxation. Though Kripalani is pro-Western, the censure proposal became an umbrella for all kinds of other Nehru critics, including leftists angered by Nehru...