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...Family? Nehru's own personal favorites in the succession sweepstakes are said to be his daughter, Indira Gandhi, 44, widow of Congress Party Backbencher Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), and acerbic, West-baiting Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon, 65. Nehru envisions his daughter, who is his closest confidante, as a stopgap Prime Minister who could keep India on an even keel until the Congress Party chose a permanent successor...
...that post, Nehru is said to prefer Menon, the only one of his Cabinet colleagues he regards as his intellectual equal...
Though Nehru termed the Chinese note "rather disappointing," he reaffirmed his desire "to settle our differences with China by peaceful discussions." Such apparent willingness to negotiate on Chinese terms stimulated cries of "appeasement" against Nehru's government. Attacks on Defense Minister Krishna Menon for his recent breakfast dates and cocktail party nattering with Chen Yi in Geneva have been stepped up, even though Nehru claimed that Menon was only acting under orders to probe China's real intentions in Ladakh. But Menon's contention that Ladakh was only "unoccupied territory" and Nehru's stance that...
...wing of these neutralists is Foreign Minister Quinim Pholsena, a bookseller and politician who nurses a grudge against the U.S.. both for the previous machinations of the CIA and for alleged slights at the hands of U.S. diplomats. Quinim has the potential of developing into a Laotian Krishna Menon. but last week he was acting his affable best, assuring newsmen that the new Laos was happy to accept aid "without conditions" from East and West. Washington was swift to make its contribution: the payment of $3,000,000 a month to the Laos government-suspended last February to help...
China's blatant resort to force finally woke India up. Slowly Menon began to build up India's defenses in the Himalayas. Krishna Menon's troop units were strengthened with thousands of additional soldiers in N.E.F.A., Sikkim and Ladakh and issued new mountain fighting equipment. Some 4,000 miles of new military roads are being laid through the slopes to ease the problem of supply; bulldozers are shaving away hillsides to straighten out the hairpin turns in old roads. Most of the mountain roads, however, are still little better than mountain-goat paths on which, says...