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...Nehru's campaign was the vital constituency of North Bombay, where independent Coalition Candidate J.B. Kripalani hoped to unseat Nehru's left-lining Defense Minister Krishna Menon (TIME cover, Feb. 2). Posters hitting at Congress Candidate Menon's soft stand on Red China's border incursions proclaimed: "Patriots vote Kripalani; Communists vote Menon." Through North Bombay's streets snaked a huge Kripalani procession headed by a phalanx of gaily garbed dancers. The demonstrators displayed a giant set of scales in which a full-sized effigy of Kripalani outweighed an image of Menon...
Crisscrossing the city, Menon sound trucks blared out the theme that Menon was a modern Marco Polo, spanning oceans and continents to defend India's interests all over the globe. But Menon himself scarcely concealed his contempt for constituents. At one gathering in a slum area, he stretched out on the platform behind the party functionary who was eulogizing his accomplishments and fell fast asleep. Awakened by applause, he scrambled to his feet and spoke a few words in English, which sailed right over his Hindi-speaking audience...
...have drawn and quartered India's Krishna Menon in the traditional American way [Feb. 2]. When I asked him to speak at our church last year, he accepted quite spontaneously...
...have not used your usual vitriolic comments against Krishna Menon. On the contrary, I felt your excellent story gave a good background of one of the most controversial leaders of our country. Unexpectedly, you have been very fair to him-more so than most of the critics of his own country. SHALIL GHOSH Bombay...
...your flinging of journalistic teacups of malice toward Menon, he would get my vote as one who adroitly walks a tightrope of constructive neutralism between East and West...