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...Krishna Menon, India's Communist-cuddling roving ambassador, sat at the head table of the National Press Club in Washington one noon last week, his lean fingers coiled and writhed, flitted across his face, danced in the air, groomed his nose. Sometimes he cracked his knuckles with an audible snap. When at last he rose to face the newsmen, his words also coiled and writhed and flitted...
Dressed in a dark-blue double-breasted suit, a dark-blue tie, and a shirt with a blue pinstripe, Krishna Menon looked more than ever like a snake charmer, but he denied that he had developed a personal aura of mystery: "The only mystery I know of about myself is that I have nothing to be mysterious about. It is so simple that it appears complex. And this world loves complexity because it flatters itself - how complex we have made things - and it is complexity that baffles us. That...
...Krishna Menon's words did not offer many clear clues to just how it is: "I think everybody can aid world peace by living and letting live . . . You know the last word has not been spoken on anything ... A principle is not like a geometrical point, without magnitude. A principle has sufficient magnitude for different points of view to be reconciled . . . We have differences in the valuation of purposes, if you like ... The main thing to consider is to discover, isn't it? The course of discovery is very important, and what is more, we have found that...
India's Krishna Menon was the first to arrive. Fresh from Peking, he carried a proposition from the Red Chinese. Its gist: Chou Enlai, fearing U.S retaliation, has given up the notion of forcibly taking Formosa. The Red Chinese had shown their peaceful intentions by releasing four U.S. flyers (TIME, June 13); soon, Menon cooed, he thought the eleven other flyers still held prisoner in China would be released, too. In return, Menon hinted, it might be helpful if the Chinese Nationalists quietly abandoned Quemoy and Matsu...
...Eyes. Hard on Menon's heels was Germany's Konrad Adenauer. The Russians had been making goo-goo eyes at Germany, too, and Adenauer wanted to consult his American friends on coordinated action. In informal talks Adenauer, Secretary Dulles and the President reached complete agreement on the steps to be taken. Adenauer would "probably" accept his invitation to the Kremlin, but not until after the Geneva summit conference in July and not until the Russians had answered three pointed questions: 1) What does Russia propose to do about the German prisoners of war still behind the Iron Curtain...