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...most widely held responsible for India's conquest of Goa is not Jawaharlal Nehru, but Nehru's abrasive, acerbic Defense Minister, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, who apparently provided the necessary push to overcome his master's remaining scruples. With elections due in February, Nehru and Menon have been under continuous harassment from Indian leftists for not expelling the Portuguese "imperialists" and from moderates and rightists for ignoring Red China's new incursions on India's northern frontier. Acting against Goa was one way to cover up inaction against China. Moreover, Menon's own parliamentary...
...crackling (and self-cultivated) Oxonian accents, he has put forth Nehru's ideas with a snarling eloquence all over the world, giving them a leftist spin that invariably directs them against the West. Menon bends over backward to make allowances for the Communists, in 1956 voted against a U.N. resolution calling for the removal of Russian troops from beleaguered Hungary. He mouthed the Russian line at the Geneva conference on Laos last summer, has echoed Russia's call for an uninspected nuclear test ban. Once criticized by the former Senator William F. Knowland for his consistent advocacy...
...most disliked lead ers in India, but there are several reasons why Nehru values him highly. They are old friends, and have been ever since Menon's 22-year self-exile in Britain. Son of a middle-class law yer, Menon took degrees at the London School of Economics, also became a barrister. In 1935, when Nehru visited England, Menon went all out to build him up as Gandhi's successor. He arranged annual Nehru birthday celebrations, set up speaking engagements in England, got Nehru's first books published...
...Nehru finds Menon witty, intelligent, provocative. Besides, he serves as a kind of lightning rod for other left-wing Indian intellectuals who might harass (and bore) Nehru far more if it were not for Menon's position close to the Prime Minister. Involved in a close race in the last general election in 1957, Menon expects another tight contest against the widely respected coalition candidate, Acharya J. B. Kripalani next February. The "conquest" of Goa probably gives Menon the edge he needs to carry his North Bombay constituency handily...
...President Kennedy said last fall, "the only true alternative to war." The U.N. can perhaps reduce but cannot replace the use of force for urgent national self-interest. That is why some observers who do not necessarily approve of Nehru's actions in Goa feel, nevertheless, that Stevenson became somewhat too sweeping in his condemnation of the use of force. Since Korea, the U.S. has used force in Lebanon and may have to use it again in Cuba or Viet...