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...Krishna Menon, chief delegate from India to the United Nations, will inaugurate the Harvard-Delhi Project tonight with a talk on peaceful coexistence entitled. "Towards World Peace." The speech is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
Until recently, Indira confined her outside activities to good works and women's welfare. But since the death of his old friend Ran Ahmad Kidwai, Nehru has lacked a personal troubleshooter and confidant. Most candidates were too old, too ambitious, or too antagonistic to Krishna Menon. Nehru's devious foreign-policy tinkerer. Last week it looked as if Indira was being groomed...
...draft the new plan, Nehru picked Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 62, head of the sprawling Calcutta University Statistical Institute. Cambridge-trained Professor Mahalanobis, a physicist turned economist, has achieved a sensational rise in prestige, stands as close to Nehru on economic matters as Krishna Menon does on foreign affairs. Mahalanobis has stocked the institute's library with the works of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung and the proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, bound in calf. To help draft the plan, Mahalanobis got the services of ten Soviet economists to assist his staff. Mahalanobis has been called a Communist...
Later, Krishna Menon danced around a question about whether he is a Marxist, and slipped into a revealing statement of India-style policymaking: "Well, I haven't heard myself called [Marxist]," he said. "That is a new one on me, but if it is so, there is no objection . . . So far as the policy of our country is concerned . . . if any particular outlook becomes advantageous...