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...speech dovetailed perfectly, in timing and content, with Moscow's campaign to disrupt the London agreements. But the speaker was not a delegate of the Soviet Union or one of its Communist satellites. He was V. K. Krishna Menon of India, trusted adviser to Premier Nehru and traveling apostle of Nehru's anti-Western "neutrality...
Brilliant & Bitter. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, 57, is an Indian who has lived more than half his life as an Englishman; a Western-trained intellectual who distrusts and hates the West; a passionate foe of old-style imperialism whose histrionic talents and glib tongue more often than not give aid to the new imperialism of Communism. He ostentatiously preaches humility and tolerance, but some of his colleagues call him "The Great I Am," and secretaries dissolve in tears when he flies into a thunderous rage and calls them insulting names. A brilliant, bitter, unsatisfied man, he wears expensive Savile...
...Menon, son of a lawyer, was born on India's Malabar Coast in 1897. At 27, he went to London and studied political science (under Socialist Harold Laski) and law. Intending to stay six months, he stayed for 30 years, became active in the British Labor Party, once was even elected a London councilman. But years later, when Britain went to war against Nazi Germany, Menon joined the Communists in damning both sides (though he marched in anti-Nazi demonstrations). Once he was asked whether the Indian people would prefer British or Nazi rule. "You might as well...
...false conception of India's so-called "neutrality." Urging Red China's admission to the United Nations, refusing to join a Southeast Asian collective security pact, trying to put the brakes on West German rearmament--in all India's policies, Prime Minister Nehru and his top U.N. delegate, Krishna Menon, seem at first to be following a foreign policy that is consistently "neutral on the other side of the fence...
Next day Nehru spoke a little more moderately: "I have no desire . . . to moralize to anybody. I am deeply conscious of our own failings." But the Nehru line, restated by his alter ego in foreign affairs, Krishna Menon, was unchanged. SEATO is "the modern version of a protectorate," said Menon, dreamed up by imperialistic "outsiders" who were trying to dictate to the peoples of Asia...