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Also fading are the influence and career of Krishna Menon, whose arrogant, pro-Communist politics are heavily responsible for India's predicament...
Defense Minister Menon came in for almost as much abuse as the Red Chinese. For four years Indian staff officers have been trying to get Menon to replace the army's obsolete, single-shot Lee Enfield rifle of World War I vintage with lighter, modern automatic weapons, and to increase stocks of heavy mortars and mountain artillery. Instead, Menon blandly presided over a military organization that was starved for money; during his tenure, the Defense share of the Indian national budget dropped from...
Nothing Changed. Against reason, Menon insisted that India's real enemy was Pakistan, not Red China, and crack units of the Indian army were on idle garrison duty in Kashmir when the Chinese broke through the light defenses on the Himalayan border. He kept baiting the West as enthusiastically as he praised the Soviet Union, sure, as was Nehru, that if his Red Chinese friends should ever become troublesome, Moscow would keep them in line. The utter bankruptcy of this policy was demonstrated last week when ten Indian Air Force pilots returned emptyhanded from Russia, where they had been...
...bitterness in the defeated army. Indian intelligence had reported that 100,000 Chinese troops were massed along the border against only 20,000 Indians. Tibetan refugees had brought news of the massive Chinese buildup weeks ago, but the government failed to act on the information. Defense Minister Krishna Menon, longtime Communist apologist, popped up in Bangalore and Bombay breathing defiance: "Those who have invaded our territory will have to be thrown out to the last man!" An Indian officer said angrily: "He should be back at his desk, and silent...
...week's end, Nehru finally got off dead center through the declaration of a state of emergency, putting the nation on a war footing. India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party, demanded that Nehru fire Menon as De fense Minister and take over the post himself. He charged that India's defense policy "has proved to be a miserable failure. It is meaningless to accuse the enemy of cheating-it's the enemy's business to cheat." Rajaji mourned that India stood alone: "All our neighbors are either against...