Word: krishna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted...
...part of the U.N. Council's Yard efforts, including a discussion of freedom of the press and information by widely known newspaper editors. Last year this organization sponsored speeches here by Sir Alexander Cadogan, British delegate to the Security Council; Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, and V. K. Krishna Menon, India's foreign affairs advisor to Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister and head of that nation's delegation to the U. N. General Assembly, and V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the same gathering, spoke at the University last term under the Council's sponsorship...
Making a long-delayed visit to the University at the invitation of the United Nations Council to speak on current Indian political problems, Krishna Menon declared in an interview that in his opinion the constitution's provisions will be so liberal that all factions will agree...
Although Moslem delegates to the Constitutional assembly framing the document walked out on the proceedings, Krishna Menon believed that even they would finally accept it. "If it doesn't come to that," he said, "then we must face the situation as it arises...