INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAHOMEDALI CURRIM CHAGLA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100740002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Indian Foreign 7i n7sLer be meant all nations' merely
14rLr t L1 ? ?gence operations, not merely
those of the United States.
Mahomedali Currim Chagla
dor," India's Foreign Minister i He became a member of the
once recalled, the first ques-,,, Bombay High Count in 1941
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f Born in Bombay in 1900
the son of a prosperous trad-
er, Young Chagla went to On-
ford and got his legal train-;.
News gestion that his Before Mr. Chagla, who is '?
dira Gandhi's decision last bridge. player, but he never.:
Foreign Minister, after all, is
living proof that what is
Moslem can be Indian-a val-
uable point when he has to.
debate Pakistan's claims- to
predominantly Moslem'-Kash
Mr. cnagla, who spoke In . + ? d- I
the Indian Parliament yester-. . . United Press International
nuclear menace posed by. country's viewpoint.
Communist China, has had
considerable experience In de- ,.an urbanity and-flair that it
bating the Kashmir issue- has lacked since the death of
first as delegate to the United Jawaharlal Nehru, who was
States, then as Ambassador always this own Foreign Min-
to Britain and, during the inter. .
short Indian-Pakistan war in Mr. la's tenure in
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the fall of 1965, as a repre- .Washington from 1958. to
sentative on the U.N. Secu- 1961 spanned the Eisenhower
city Council. ? Adminiz.tration, which often
Whether the fact that he seemed to consider Indian non-
.is a Moslem had nothing to alignment faintly immoral,
do with his gaining that ex- and the Kennedy Adniinistra-
perience is something that -tion, which was warmly._
.might still be. doubted. But sympathetic.
,IS fright when he Insists that ^be a blunt advocate of his
it was his experience and not country's ,point of view. In
his religion that made him a 1960 he wrote to Senator
logical choice for the Foreign John F. Kennedy 'expressing
A Question of Health cratic candidate would be
elected President and invitin
g
Indeed, some observers who him to attend the premiere of
formance as Education Min- v
he inauguration. President
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h
di
s
er say
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splayed notably , Kennedy ?accepted,.
more interest in lecturing'-,
Parliament on International U. 'oIicy Deplored
er to his own portfolio. said the 'United States missed:
If there were any raised a "golden opportunity" for
"eyebrows over his appoint- starting peace , talks with
ment, they related only to his .-North Vietnam when dt rc-
health. Being a Foreign Min. . sumed bombing the North
Cha la, who is 66 OIL the other nano, he re-
g years old, fused to join attacks by some
had
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r
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eart a
ack Indian -legislators on the
last year. He. says, however, United . States and the Cen-
that he is sure hard work tral Intelligence Agency carli-
will be good for his heart. er this month. He said the
He? has no political base. accounts' of C.I.A. activities
He did not even belong to the In India were "wild rcports''
governing Congress party un and "v' ie-charges."
til he entered the Cabinet in ! He did pledge . increased
?1963. He brings to Indian dip- , Government -;Ml
ant
e against
?lomacy at the .-highest, level dntelligence operations in, In