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...like your needless needling of Krishna Menon over the Kashmir affair in the U.N. [Feb. 4]. Not that I favor the Indians in the Kashmir question; on the contrary, I think they are wrong. But what apparently you do not realize is that TIME is unnecessarily unfriendly and, sometimes, insulting to India. Use your enormous influence to further good will abroad toward...
After four days of this, India's ailing V. K. Krishna Menon introduced an Algeria-style compromise resolution calling vaguely for negotiations "in accord with the principles ... of the U.N. Charter." Save for Afghanistan and Panama, both of whom abstained, every nation in the U.N. Assembly pounced, 76 to o, on this chance to sweep Cyprus back .under the carpet. "Afghanistan," mused Menon. "Well, they have a somewhat similar quarrel with Pakistan. As for Panama, I guess I was rude to the Panamanian delegate...
After, an impassioned hour and 40 minutes in defense of India's seizure of disputed Kashmir, India's waspish V. K. Krishna Menon, the United Nations' champion long-distance speaker, collapsed in a heap one day last week and had to be rushed off to the medical clinic...
...vague that he refused to co-sponsor it: he wanted to reassure Israel that if it agreed to the first resolution, it would be protected by the second. But Cabot Lodge was after a resolution that would satisfy enough Afro-Asians, and teamed up with India's Krishna Menon to achieve it. Once the Israelis withdrew, said Lodge, the U.N. troops would be "deployed on both sides of the armistice line, particularly in the sensitive Gaza and El Auja sectors" and "at the Strait of Tiran." Their mission. he said, would be "to restrain any attempt to exercise belligerent...
...five other nations as cosponsors, Lodge's resolutions passed. The first carried 74 to 2, with only France siding with Israel. The second was then adopted, 56 to 0, the Arab and Soviet blocs abstaining. But before passage, Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, seconded by Menon, rose to dispute Lodge's interpretation of the loosely phrased second resolution. The UNEF, he said, was not in Egypt "to resolve any question or to settle any problem" but to "secure the withdrawal" of the Israeli invaders. After such withdrawal, he said, the UNEF must "take positions exclusively...