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...India's fellow-traveling Ambassador Krishna Menon this week came out of Peking, after 30 hours of talks with Chou and Mao Tse-tung, full of feeling that peace was in the air: "The talks were very useful. We can look forward with hope." He added that he thought Red China would release the 15 imprisoned U.S. airmen "very soon," and confidently predicted that U.S.-Red China talks would be set up within 60 days...
Grimly, Nehru struggled to get the balky delegates back under control. He arranged gatherings and dinners for selected delegates to meet Chou. His chief foreign adviser, Krishna Menon, acted as a kind of floor manager for Chou. Gaunt and spectral in his flowing white robes, Menon swooped from delegate to delegate like a chicken hawk over a smorgasbord, crying: "Isn't he a wonderful man?" But the delegates refused to be herded...
Nehru, his carefully fostered illusions of coexistence rudely shattered, was furious. "Bloody fool," spluttered Krishna Menon. Demanded Nehru: "Why didn't you ask me before you did a thing like this?" Retorted Sir John: "Do you ask me for permission before you make a move?" Scowling, China's Chou rose and demanded an opportunity to reply...
With an odd mixture of pomp and impatience, the five Prime Ministers engaged themselves in housekeeping details that for the most part could have been arranged by underlings. India's Jawaharlal Nehru, his mischievous foreign-policy missionary, Krishna Menon, and the rest of the Indian delegation were openly contemptuous of the inept way their inexperienced Indonesian hosts had prepared for the meeting. "We sent some people down here in advance to try and help these beggars," said one Indian, "but they haven't got a clue, not a clue!" Invitations. The five Prime Ministers briskly agreed on date...
Coming Around. By this time, he was talking expansively of "the now common goal," rousing India's Krishna Menon to indignation. "We are not prepared to accept the proposition that because the Soviet Union and the U.S. are agreed, all problems are solved," snapped Menon...