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...stately procession, the delegates rolled up to the Palais des Nations in Qeneva-the U.S.'s Dean Rusk in a black Homburg, India's smartly tailored V. K. Krishna Menon sweeping an arrogant eye over the press gallery, Russia's grinning Andrei Gromyko, China's dumpy Marshal Chen Yi, hidden first behind the curtains of his huge ZIM limousine and then behind a phalanx of small aides in crumpled clothes. Then came a call from the man who was supposed to convene the conference, Cambodia's unpredictable Prince Norodom Sihanouk. He was enjoying an excellent...
...that's the only record of entry of arms, although we know that thousands of tons of war material have been shipped in from Russia." The I.C.C. representatives concede that on their visits to Hanoi, they can see Russian munitions planes landing daily. But, explains Chairman Maniketh Gopala Menon, these are "private observations," and only "official observations" can be reported. Otherwise, the I.C.C. might be guilty of "spying...
...March of Home Minister Govind Pant. Desai, though his manner is languid, has won a wide following among Congress Party moderates (he dismisses Marxism as "a bunch of misguided theories"), and as deputy leader he would have been clearly in line for the top job. But Defense Minister Krishna Menon rallied the leftists behind gregarious Railway Minister Jagjivan Ram, 53, the only Untouchable in the Cabinet and a longtime Nehru disciple...
That settled the crisis, while raising the politicians' old complaint that Nehru is "a banyan tree under which nothing grows." It also made clear that he is not fond of any member of his Cabinet except Defense Minister Krishna Menon. One reason is personal: only Menon is Nehru's kind of intellectual, like Nehru British-educated and capable of endless speculative, theoretical sparring. The rest are relatively unsophisticated, and Nehru finds little in common with them. Above all, most do not really believe in Nehru's rather mystical brand of socialism. Desai, for instance, is openly...
India, too, shares in the nationalistic aspirations of the world, declared a third panelist, N. B. Menon, First Secretary of the Indian Embassy in Washington. "To us, also, nationalism is a liberating, vigorous force--and not something to be ashamed of," he emphasized. A self-declared "peace-loving, neutralist man," Mr. Menon subsequently modified this assertion by posing the question: "What is nationalism but real estate...