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...room politicking began, Nasser's chief political aide, Wing Commander Ali Sabri, flew in from Cairo. He announced that shipowning nations still had rights in Suez−"the same rights as a customer in a shop." Then he went into a long session with India's Krishna Menon, whose eagerness to defend Nasser's anti-Western stand was slightly tempered by awareness that the canal is also his country's road to market. At week's end one Asian delegate asserted that, of the half-dozen Asian representatives he had talked to, all but Menon...
Years later the anonymous author of this trenchant judgment announced his identity. It was Nehru himself. Today Nehru is very close to being Caesar. Critics complain that his Cabinet consists not of ministers but of courtiers like the mercurial former U.N. delegate Krishna Menon, who is almost as unpopular in India as in the U.S. They charge, too, that Nehru's personal interference in every detail of government has sapped the initiative of his subordinates and prevented the emergence of potential national leaders...
After 40 hours of bitter debate, the new bill passed the House unanimously. "What we now have." said Nehru's own parliamentary secretary, Mrs. Lakshmi N. Menon, speaking as a woman, "is a possibility of freedom...
...meeting is sponsored by the Harvard-Delhi Student Project, which is helping to finance Indian village development undertaken by Indian students at the University of Delhi. In November, the Delhi Project sponsored a speech by V. K. Krishna Menon, chief Indian delegate to the United Nations. The undergraduate group is also working with Indian students in the Cambridge area as part of a program to bring Indians and Americans together in a joint undertaking...
Last week, skillfully urged by India's V. K. Krishna Menon, the Arab-Asian bloc beat a delicate retreat. Without a dissenting voice, the General Assembly agreed to drop the Algerian case from the agenda. In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay hailed "a victory for reason," achieved without any pressure by the French themselves, and ordered his delegates to return posthaste to their seats...