Folks,
I apologise for my error calling Krishna Menon the foreign
minister. Perhaps he was the Defence Minister....which would make
his neglect of preparedness unforgivable ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Remembering a luminary
On 18 January 2014 11:10, Joe Lobo <[email protected]> wrote:
Was not this the gent , who while Foreign Minister of
India..?.....ignored the Chinese Threat on the NEFA border, with his
protestations of " Hindi- Chinee bhai, bhai " whilst they
slaughtered
hundreds of WW-1 Lee Enfield ancient rifle toting indian soldiers
as
they pushed southwards across the McMahon line which was a hazy
undermarcated border left as a Brit legacy "
COMMENT:
1: Krishna Menon was NEVER the Foreign Minister of India
2: What caught my attention in that article is that this ostensible
Leftist, while a High Commissioner to the UK, rode around in a Rolls Royce
presented to him by Nehru.
jc
