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When the Congress Party achieved its landslide victory in India's latest general election 15 months ago, the fiercest critics of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and former Defense Minister Krishna Menon were swept out of office. But the government's clumsy handling of the Chinese invasion last October gave new hope to the shattered non-Communist opposition. The hope was well founded. In the past fortnight, three of Nehru's most acid-tongued foes have scored overwhelming by-election victories over hand-picked Congress candidates for the Lok Sabha, lower house of Parliament...
Swamped by Menon last year, Kripalani this time rolled over Nehru's Irrigation and Power Minister Hafiz Mohammed Ibrahim with little difficulty. The defeat was doubly galling for Nehru, for Ibrahim's campaign was masterminded by none other than his discredited old crony, Menon himself...
Along with the successes, he acknowledges a number of defeats. "I lost with Nikita Khrushchev, but there was so much hysteria attendant on his appearance that it was hopeless. My office was picketed, my children were threatened with reprisals...." He feels he also lost with V. Krishna Menon ("so disrespectful, so rude") and Adlai Stevenson ("he had been my political hero, and then, after the interview, well...
...same time, those who, like Time magazine, feel the Indian policy of nonalignment "has ceased to have any meaning" will probably be disappointed. The most they should expect will be the opportunity to deal with someone more tactfully nonaligned than Mr. Menon...
...Chinese as by a desire to maintain Chinese good will. The need for assuaging the Chinese will hardly diminish in the future, so India will probably continue to vote in the U.N. just about as it always has. Their representative may not enjoy it so much as Mr. Menon, but he'll do it anyway...