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...Nehru that he was determined to resist Chinese encroachment would obviously find his people behind him. In fact, some were well ahead of him. Last week a crowd of 300 university students paraded to Nehru's home demanding the dismissal of unpopular Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon because of his "brazenfaced defense of Chinese aggression in Tibet." Menon, who has been in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly, flew home at week's end to give his counsel to Nehru...
...wanted the Tibet question debated in the U.N. When it was debated there anyway (at the urging of Ireland and Malaya). Nehru's wire-haired man-about-U.N.. V. K. Krishna Menon, dismissed Red China's aggressiveness as little more than the ebullience of youth, and deplored only China's choice of victims. "We tell them," he said, "that they can kick up their heels, but not against those who have not offended them." To some indignant Indian editorialists this seemed tantamount to inviting Red China to attack Formosa, Hong Kong. Laos or any other...
...Spain. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon explained that his country has misgivings about Tibet's legal status, and therefore the U.N.'s right to intervene; he wants no embarrassing precedents set. On similar grounds, France regards Algeria and India considers Kashmir an internal affair. Krishna Menon expressed his nation's "distress" over events in Tibet but did not think "a warming up of issues" would help relax international tensions...
...India's V. K. Krishna Menon declared that while his government would be only too happy to negotiate its border dispute with Red China, it would do so only after Communist troops had been withdrawn from Indian territory. In New Delhi, Prime Minister Nehru spent the week consulting other nations that are also at odds with Peking. The ambassadors from Yugoslavia, a country with an old grudge against Red China, and from the United Arab Republic, whose grudge is new, both called on Nehru. Finally, Burma's Prime Minister Ne Win flew in. "General...
...first muted outcries came when the Assembly jabbed perfunctorily at the tender old question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...