India Peace Plan Author Approves Korean Talk Pace

"Negotiations in Korea show a temper of peace and have thus far been heartening," commented V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian delegate to the United Nations, during an interview with the CRIMSON Saturday afternoon.

The author of India's Peace Plan later spoke before a mock U.N. Council session of the United Nations. He is Nehru's chief aid.

Menon was reluctant to speak on the "delicate" Korean truce negotiations, but expressed the hope that the exchange of wounded prisoners would go smoothly.

Although exchange of all prisoners in still being negotiated between the commanders, Menon is "encouraged" by their agreement on 58 of the 60 provisions of the Indian armistice proposal. the two remaining points of disagreement are over unification of North and south Korea and the communist demand for compulsory exchange of all prisoners.

India Not Afraid of Reds

Menon saw no connection between the death of Stalin and the softening of Soviet policy toward the West. "Unlike most Americans," he said. "Indians have no terror or phobia of the Communists. In India we don't say. "Thank God the man is dead."

Formerly a close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, Menon shares Gandhi's contempt for force.

After six years in the United Nations, Menon has come to the conclusion that "effective diplomacy is the capacity to keep quite."

He called the General Assembly's new Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden, "a successful choice." Of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. '24, head of the U. S. delegation, Menon would only say he had a nice personality and was "a Harvard man." But he would not explain this last remark.