KRISHNA MENON'S VIEWS ON INDIAN RELATIONS WITH KHRUSHCHEV AND UNDERGROUND ATOMI

Created: 11/4/1961

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I. ALF-HOUR EXPOSITION OF THEN ATTITUDE TOWARD

KHRUSHCHEV

DEFMIN KRISHNA MENON MADE! THE FOLLOWING

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ONLY WAY TO USE KHRUSHCHEV TO GOOD PURPOSE INCONFLICT IS TO REMAIN ON FRIENDLY TERMS, AND THEREBY BETO EXERT SOME INFLUENCE, HOWEVER LIMITED, ON HIM. BOTH

NEHRU'S ANO MENON'S LINE IS: DON'T UPSET KHRUSHCHEV. "YOU CAN INFLUEN

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HIM ONLY BY NOT BEING AGAINST HIM EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT ON HIS SIDE".

THE MO'RE LIMITED ISSUE OF INDIA'S NATIONALIS THE ONLY MEANS OF INFLUENCING PEIPING, AND THUSONLY TANGIBLE DETERRENT TO AN AGGRESSIVE CHICOM POLICY. NEHRU

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LOOKS UPON THE PROBLEM OF DEALING WITH CHINAONG PROCESS OF UNDERMINING CHINA'S POSITION IN ASIA, AND THE ONLY WAY HE CAN DO THIS IS THROUGH MOSCOW.

ENON REITERATED HIS POSITION THAT UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR TESTS ARE AS DANGEROUS AS ATMOSPHERIC TESTS, AND SAID HE HAD MADE THIS

STATEMENT ON THE SCIENTIFIC AOVICE OF DR KOTHARI 7 NOW CHAIRMAN UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION; FORMERLY SCIENTIFIC ADVISER TO TME MINIST OF DEFENSE WHERE HE WAS LARGELY CONCERNED WITH ORDNANCE PRODUCTION).

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