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...British-French plan for a step-by-step suppression of nuclear weapons. To U.S. experts, Vishinsky's seeming concession still looked like a plan with a built-in veto against thorough inspection-and the stalemate continued. Last week in the U.N. Political Committee, India's Krishna Menon rose to comment: "Let us decide this matter once...
...Menon's "solution": there should be an immediate, worldwide stoppage of arms manufacture while East and West worked out both a disarmament agreement and a complete ban on nuclear weapons. Menon argued that if the world's present rate of nuclear test explosions is maintained, the air would become so radioactive that "it will be impossible for the human race to survive." His proposal had one surprising effect: in rare concert, the U.S. and Soviet Russia both voted to shelve...
...persuade the nations of Asia into a chain of "nonaggression" pacts with Red China. These pacts would specifically exclude Western influence from Asia, entrust the security of non-Communist countries to promises from Communist China. Nehru has been insistent upon making Far-Left-Winger V. K. Krishna Menon (TIME, Oct. 18) his Foreign Minister. He has been praising Red China's "village Communism," even suggesting that India should consider adopting some Red Chinese economic ideas without also taking on harsher Communist habits, such as shooting landlords...
...with him in the long struggle for independence) and the Indian constitution (which Nehru did much to frame) are standing in Nehru's way. Congress Party moderates prefer more neutrality than Nehru now seems to envisage; some Cabinet ministers even threaten to resign if Nehru elevates the unpopular Menon to the Foreign Ministry. The constitution has a "fundamental rights" clause, which guarantees private property from seizure without good compensation...
While editing books and writing articles on Indian freedom, Menon met Nehru in London and became his unofficial literary and political agent. In 1947, on taking power, a grateful Nehru named Menon to be India's first high commissioner in London, though the expatriate was so little known among his people that his name did not even appear in India...