Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kripalani scoffs at Menon's and Nehru's pretensions about India's vital role in advancing world peace. An old Gandhian, Kripalani declares that the Mahatma was wary of Menon and suspicious of his influence on Nehru. Says Kripalani: "Menon's defeat will change the course of Nehru's Cabinet and en courage the best men in it to make a stand against Jawaharlal...
...Hell." All five major parties are involved in Krishna Menon's re-election fight in North Bombay. In an unlikely coalition, the Swatantra, Jana Sangh, and Praja Socialist parties are backing Jiwatram Bhagwandas Kripalani, 74, a lean, acerbic former Congress Party president who fell out with Nehru, formed the Praja Socialists in 1951, is now an independent. To combat this alliance, Bombay's Communist Party has put its organization at the disposal of Congress Candidate Menon: Menon's defeat-or even a narrow victory-would be the most dramatic repudiation of Nehru's aggressive socialism...
With his personal prestige at stake, Nehru has campaigned vigorously for Menon. When local Congress leaders in North Bombay tried to dump Menon as a candidate, Nehru personally had the revolt squashed. Shortly thereafter, 26 Bombay Youth Congress workers resigned from the party, protesting that because of Menon's "pro-Communism, the future of the country is not safe." Nehru was infuriated, shouted in a speech before 200,000 people in North Bombay that the youth workers could "go to hell...
...Year War. Menon's success with the India League had brought him into contact with Nehru, when he visited England during the '30s. Nehru had little in common with the stodgy, parochial Congressmen in India, found in Menon an intellectual equal who shared his passion for world affairs. Together they toured the trenches of the Spanish Civil War, "watched the bombs fall nightly from the air." After India gained independence in 1947, the new Prime Minister named his friend High Commissioner to Great Britain...
From then on, Menon took orders from no one else, even feuded with Nehru's powerful sister, Mme. Pandit, onetime Indian Ambassador to Russia, the U.S., and the U.N. On a visit to London, she was told by High Commissioner Menon: "You will not give interviews to the press unless I or one of my staff is present. I am ambassador here, not you." Mme. Pandit protested to her brother about Menon's arrogance, but to no avail. "Krishna can be both charming and irritating," she says. "But it's about three-fourths...