BIOGRAPHIC REPORT

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Biographic Report
Delegates to the
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
NINTH SESSION, NEW YORK
from
INDIA
Office of Libraries and
Intelligence Acquisition
September 15, ],954
Division of Biographic Information
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The Indian delegation to the ninth session of the UN General Assembly
cannot be considered outstanding, despite the fact that it is composed of
some intelligent and able individuals. Excluding Madame Vijaya Lakshmi
Pandit, who will not remain after her successor is chosen, only six members
of this yearts delegation were members of the 1953 delegation. Of these,
five have attended Assembly sessions prior to 1953. Prakash Sapru, who
attended in 1946 is making his second appearance, The rest, numbering ten,
have had no previous UN experience.
The delegation is a rather typical one, since Indian delegations tend
to represent various groups and interests-in the country, including religious
groups, the legal professions social work,, individuals of divergent, political
sympathies,. private citizens and, as one would expect, a considerable number
of people with the Ministry of External Affairs and members of Parliament.
Two of the latter are connected with the Foreign Office.
This is illustrated further by an analysis of the delegation: If R. S.
Gillani, whose attendance is unconfirmed., is included in the delegation, it
will then consist of two Christians, two Muslims,, one Sikh aid twelve Hindus.
The delegation includes seven members of Parliament, all of whom are members
of the Congress Party; The lone Socialist member, Purshottamdas Tricumdas,
does not appear to stand much chance of influencing the delegation's thinking;
It includes eight government officials, including six who are also members of
Parliament,
It is to be expected that V. K, Krishna Menon will dominate the
delegation. As the leader of the delegation his vociferousness will
probably increase, His personal characteristics plus his known closeness to
Prime Minister Nehru will tend to silence any opposition to his actions
particularly by those members of the delegation who are government officials.'
Nevertheless Menon's pronounced leftist leanings will in part at least be
offset by other members of his own delegation who are known to be sympathetic
and friendly to the United States,
Included in this ].atter'group are Nawab Ali Yawar Jung., who is an
independently wealthy Muslim, and Arthur S. Lall, an Oxford educated member
of the Indian Civil Service. All members of the delegation are expected
to support Nehru's foreign policy.
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rraxasn Narayan SAPRU
Purshottamdas T .iC'JMDAS
Professor Co P. MATHEW
-:Alternate Delegates:
Arthur S. LALL
Advisers:
s ers:
M. Thiromala RAO
Chairman:
Vengalil Krishnan NENON
Delegates:
Nawab Ali Yawar JUNG
Mrs. Lakshmi NandarL NINON;
Sadath Ali KHAN
Dev Kanta BARCOAH
K. Sadaranda HEGDE.'
Purnendu Sekhar NASKAR - -.
Tiruvalam JanakiramLyyar NATARAJAN
Atvar SING*H
U. K. GOPALACHARI
R. S. GILLANI
Public Relations Officer:
V. R. BHAT
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BAROOAH,Dev Kanta INDIA
One of five alternate delegates in the Indian delegation to the'.ninth';..
session of the UN General Assembly, which he is attending for the first time,
Dev Kanta Barooah is'one of the more active and capable members of the
younger generation of Congress Party leaders in Izidia,, a rising party
organizer, and a member of the House of.the People from an Assam constituency
since 1952. Now rated as the second ranking Congressman* from Assam, Baroct'ah
is'described as a great admirer and supporter of Nehru's domestic and foreign
policies a quick thinker., supporter of large-scale industrialization and use
of modern techniques to raise'standards of living in India., and advocate of,
military force in India'ca 'able, of resisting aggression. He is apparently
more cosmopolitan' than most Assamese'politicans,, having married outside his.
caste, "travelled "extensivvely' in Asia,, to Indonesia, Australian,. New Zealand'
Malayan Cambodian `Vie't. `Nams' and Thailand' and' occasioned himself 'some
embarrassment in Assam by advocating Bengali as the state language for Eastern
India. He has also advocated adoption of Hindustani, as a national language.
James Michener., in The Voice ofAsia$ reports an interview with Barooah in
which the latter expressed some admiration for the British. T6ward6.the:
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~'name'seems"to be of Bengali extraction. He has one son. Barooah was educated
in Nowgong High School, Assam, and Benares Hindu University, and entered'.
politics at the age of 20n as a follower of Gandhi. He was jailed in 1930,
1911,,1 and again in 1942, for political agitation. From 1938 he was Secretary
of the Assam' Provincial Congress Committee and as part of his political.
program f ounded'two daily newspapers in Assame'se~ the Dainik Asam and'
the Nature Asamiyan each with reported circulations of about 10,0000* He ;
also campaigned for establishment of an all Assam university, as one means
of counteracting tensions between the Bengali and Assamese communities in
Assam--a campaign which ultimately bore fruit with the founding of Gauhati.,
University in 1947. He was first elected to the central legislature or
parliament of India in 19509, He.has been active in national party affairs,
is a member'.of the All--India Congress Committee; of the Congress Working
Committee, and a Deputy Chief Whip in the House of the People..' He:is also
a special representative of the Congress for organizational work in the
Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU). In 1951 he was Indian
representative to the Conference on World Governments in London.
Member of the Indian National Congress,, also commonly ealied the`C'ongress.
Party.
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BHAT, V. R. INDIA
Public Relations Officer of the Indian delegation, Bhat is coming to
the UN for the first times., from his position of Deputy Principal Information
Officer of the Ministry of External Affairs. In the latte:r position Bhat's
responsibilities included the dissemination of official statements.. concerning
Indian foreign policy to local press representatives? Indian and foreign,
In recent weeks he ' has bitten under fire in the Indian press for .'alleged
incompetence in publicizl.ng the Indian position in regard to Goa a d in regard
to the Canal Waters Dispute=with Pakistan. He is extremely unpopular with
the foreign correspondents : in: New Delhi for failure to keep them inforsried,,
How,much of his.. ineptness can-justifiably be charged to him personally and'
how much to his superiors cannot be determined at present,
R. S, , Gillaini, although not, included in the original list of UNGA' dele.~
gates o#' .the Government oj'. India- may 'be an additional adviser of the Indian
.delegation, .While Indian=newspapers reported that Gillani will be included!
,Dr, To Jo Natarajan., also:an.adviser of the delegation, stated early. in
September-,1951 that Gillani's inclusion. had not yet been definitely'approveds
but was expected,.
The-chief reasonS-or:Gillan being made a member of the delegation
seems to be that he is a prominent Catholic layman. He is-a private
citizen of the Punjab and would be making his initial appearance at the
GOPALACHARI U.. K.
Beyond the fact that . U,., K?. ? Gopalachari, who has had no previous UN
experiences 1s~ a' research officer in the Ministry of External. Affairs
nothing, is known.
HEGDE, K. Sadananda. :.`
K. S.. Hegde,:.who has had no previous UN experience, is a:a Alternate
Delegate of the Indian delegation.
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HEGD K. Sad ananda.(continued) EG
A lawyer by profession, he was the Government Pleader and Public
Prosecutor at Mangalore from 1947 to 1951 before he became a member of the
Council of States from Madras, a .position which he still holds. Hedde
played a prominent part in the parliamentary discussion which resulted in
the establishment of Andhra, the first state in India created on a
linguistic basis.
'Born at Kawdoor Village, South Kanara District, Madras, on June 9,
1910, Hegde was educated at both Government College and St. Aloysius College$
Mangalore and Presidency College and Law College, Madras. He is a director
of several companies, and his favorite recreation is playing bridge* .He is
married and has three sons and three daughters.
JUNG, Nawab Ali Yawar
?--'A delegate at the ninth sessi6n of the UNGA,.and who also attended the
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He is a graduate of oxford University.
While in general agreement with the policies of the present Government
of'.India toward the United States, Nawab Jung's views are believed to be
more friendly and understanding than his government's official attitude.,
He'is well acquainted with many American officials,. admires the dynamism
of. American life and has praised this country and the aid which this
government has given to India. It-is believed that his political views are
fundamentally conservative.
Communism is a real threat to India, Jung believes and he stresses the
need for improving education aid material living standards to combat it.:.:
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KHAN Sadath Ali ^ ti
One -of five alternate. Indian delegates to the. .ninth session of the
UN General Asse}ibly, and a new coiner tl ere, Sadath All Khan a Parliamentary .
Secretary to the Ministry of ,External `Affairs, is a member of the House of
People from Hyderabad,. a,cCbelongs - to a prominent Hyderabad family, Sadath f s
father, Nawab Zain Yar Junng, was the'Agent-General for. Hyderabad in New Delhi
until shortly before the Indian army occupied that princely state and brought
about the aQcess.ion.of. Hyderabad t4 India. Nawab Zain Yar 'ung apparently
gooperated. with the Inciart. Government in -this 'matter. 'Though considered
friendly to the United , States `and highly regarded by an.American official
observer liho knew him.wel1,.'in 1948,E `-tain tar Jung was :a member of the Indian
Cultural Mission to China$led by Madame-?Pandit, in 1952, ard spolce favorably
of his impressions of Communist:'China on his return,
Sadath Ali Khan was born September 16, 1916, in Hyderabad; educated at
Nizam College, Hyderabad, and Oxford University; is married and' has one son.
He served as a news editor and announcer for the BBC, in London,' in 1943-44, .
then as. public relations officer. for. the Government of Hyderabad, both before
Indian independence,. in 1945_46, and after the accession of Hyderabad to
India, from 1948 to, 1951? From 19.46 'to `1918 he ?was private secretary to
Nawab Ala, Yawar Jung, possibly 'a relative, 'and 'also a member of the present
Indian delegation to the UNGA, Sadath has listed among his .numerous
"special interests".: planning, labor, and social security.
LALL, Arthur S.
Arthur S. ball is Ind:`ia+s Per?.manent Representative.to Vie UN. He was
the Alternate Representative in 1953,. In addition., he has- served. as Consul-
General at New Yor%. since.'Ootober 1951, Prior to' his arrival in ;the United..
States, Lall was Joint Secretary of the Ministry or' Commerce and Industry:,,,
and Acting Chief., Controller of Exports. In this capacity he was extremely
cooperative with the American 'Embassy at New Delhi, facillta-;ing the
shipment of strategic and critical materials, inoluding'thoso being. stockpiled,
to the United States and in preventing the export and transshipment of
critical materials to Communist `China, 1611 is ' very favorab:Ly. disposed toward
the United States. 'fie is ` an` Oxf ord educated Christian' and a member of the
Indian Civil Service.
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MATHEW, C...P.. INDIA
Member of the House of People since 1952, when he first entered
politics and won his parliamentary seat by a large majority ?against a rival
pro-Con i ist cat didate, Professor C. P. Mathew is one of six Indian
delegates', to the ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly.. He
has not attended any previous session. He is a protestant Christ~an who
participated, in. founding the Union Christian Colleges at Alwaye, in
Travancar -Cochins (South India) in 1921, as. a, joint enterprise of the
Anglioans} Jacobites, and Marthomites. Since that time he served as head
of the Department of Philosophy in the college till 1947s and as Principal
from 1947 .ti11 1.952? Mathew is described as 'honest, sincere, idea istic$
conservative in his social and economic thinking, and friendly to Americans.
As a professors rather than a politicians he prei'ers.to stay aloof from everyw
day, political conflicts, and prides himself on being a more objective r
observer of t`he, contemporary scene than his more politically practical
c4l1eagues`.. ` die was a member of the Indian delegation to the UNESCO conference
in'Paris:in November 1952?
Mathew was born in Ayirure, Travancore-Cochin on March 19, 1896, of
a middle class Indian Christian family. He received his education in
Maharajas College, Trivandrum; St. Aloysium College,s.Mangalore, and Madras
Christian Colleges Madras, and lectured in Philosophy at the latter
institution from 1918 till 1921. He is married to Aley Mathew;' they have
no children. In 1939 he visited Britain and Ireland at'the invitation of
the Bktish Conference of Missionary Societies. He. was very popular with
his students,, and has some reputation as a literary writer.
MGNoI Mrs o. Lakbhmi Nandan
An alternate . delegate to the : ninth session of the UN' General Assembly,
Mrs. Tenon Was also. on the'Indian. delegations to the thirds fifth and
eighth; sessions 'of ' 'UNGA,, and 'represented India at the Status of Women
Commission, conference. in Beirut in March 19"49, as well as on the Committee
on Int ' 4 at3orl from lon-Self-Governing Areas, of the Trusteeship Councilp
in the fall of 1953. From June 1949 till July 1950 she held'a position in
the UN, Secretariats,; as Chief of the Status of Women Sections of the Special
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MENON, Mrs. Lakshmi Nandarl (continued)
In the 1953 meetings of. the Trusteeship Committee she unexpectedly
challenged the U, S. action in discontinuing its reports,'on Puerto Rico,
and proposed that a committee be set up to examine the degree of autonomy-
attained by Puerto Rico, Her remarks were the first intimation of this
view on the part of the Indian Governments `their:' Under-Secretary for UN
Affairs having previously. stated that, he assumed India 'would, support the
U. S.. action as it had done ttfive. or six weeks ago,''American observers
at the UN describe her as extremely talkative$'i:nclinec to hold the floor
irk any group, but unable . to, think clearly, At an India-China Friendship
Association Conference 3,n May 1953 she urged admission 'of Communist China
to the UN.
Born in 1899, she is the wife of the Vice-Chancellor of Patna University
and is a feminist leader, o;` long standi ,
ng, A memberof 'the Council of States
from Bihar and of the ExeC,utive Committee of the .Congress Parliamentary Party,
she is also Parliamentary secretary to the Prime 'Ministers Ncahruq in his
MENON, Vengalil Krishnan kris
V._ K. ,Krishna Menon, le' I
of `the Indian :delegation, wets 'a member of
the 1946.v',1952- and :195) delegations. A'.close friend and confidant of Prime
Minister Nehru, the has lone; been known for his pro-Soviet sympathies and
for several years has been a definite "tfellow-traveller".
It is interesting to note that the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei Y.
Vishinsky, (who rejected Menonrs resolution cal]zng f`or r-patria~tion of.:all
prisoners of war in Koreaafter.,the conclusion _of an armistice by a special
commission consisting of Polands,'Czechoslbvakia,`Sweden and Switzerland
presented to the Political and "Security Comthittee'of the. Assembly in 1952),
while 'Viciously attacking the Indian Government and 'people as "dreamers' or
worse"made.an exception of`Kr.'ishna Merton, whom he described as an "honest
man". t.. ~.. ..
Krishna Nenon expects to* visit - certain 'of then 4-
a ns of South America
except Brazil, Chile and Mexico sometime after the openi t'of'the ninth
session of the Assembly. Current speculation on the subjects which he is
expected to discuss with the Latin American governments on his projected
trip include: (1) (boa; (2) admission of Communist China to the UN;
(3) to elicit support for the Indian position on Kashmir; (!4) convince them
that India is not pro-Communist; and (5) UN ig `t %Tjain gV eneraa.,
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MENON, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna (bontinued) INDIA
While at Geneva in May 1954 as Nehru''s personal envoy during the
discussions on Indo-China., Krishna Menon extended an invitation to Chou
En-tai to visit India, which the latter suddenly accepted in June.'
Information received. froma controlled American source reported that
Krishna,Menon was a disrupting influence at the Conference of South Asian
Prime Ministers, held at Colombo from April 28 to May 2# 1954. He added to
,the acrimony between Prime Minister Mohamed Ali, of Pakistan and-Prime,
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru by constantly urging on the latter., Menon's'
rude interruption of Mohammed Ali and his remark. "We're sick and tired: of
your submissions" caused Sir John Kotelawala? Prime Minister.' of..Ceylonp.to
jump up and demand that Menon-either apologize and have, the.remark stricken
from the records or -leave ,the. Conference. Sir John.:added that if. Menon did
neither' he Kotelawalai, would walk out, Tenon then apologized and the remark
was stricken from the record,
He is a brilliant orator of the-rabble rousing type?
NASKARA_ Purnendu Sekhar
P, S. Naskar is,making his initial. appearance at the:UNsas.an.:adviser
,of the Indian delegation. In 195.2 he. was elected. on the Congress .Party
ticket' to the House :of the People from . Diamond .Harbor constituency.ire :Went
Bengal,,..:to a. .seat reserved for the, Schedul d Castes.
Born in? 1921 Naskar received.his 'higher education-in Calcutta,
attending Bangabasi College, Scottish Church College and the :Univcrity of
Calcutta.
NATARAJAN, Tiruvalam Janakiramayyar
An adviser of the delegation, as he was, in?the 191i9, ? 1951:,, ,1952"and
1953 Indian General Assembly delegations, Natarajan has acted in an
.administrative rather than in.a substantive capacity. He is--a' Deputy
Secretary of the Ministry ,of External Affairs and, is,, disposed td. be' fr-,'endly
tgward the United States.
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MENON, Vengalil Krishnan Krishna (continued) INDIA
?Iriformation believed to be'reasonably accurate'from several sources
indicates that Krishna Menon has not endeared himself'with the diplomatic
representatives of South American countries. Prior'-to leaving Now Delhi
in September it is reported that one of the representatives of a Latin
American country asked Krishna Menon why he was not going to visit Brazil,
Chile or Mexico, to-which the latter replied that there is a revolution
going on in-Brazil and then aided, "How long does it take' to have a
revolution-in South America"? Another version from a different source put the
query=as?"How do'you know when there will be a revolution in South America"?
The 'South American official protested to the Indian Foreign Office and the
following day Menon came and ,apologized for his blunder.
.. `.Krishna:'Menon: also took occasion to denounce the proposed Southeast
Asia . Treaty, Organization befo.^e leaving New Delhi for the opening' of the
Assembly,' Speaking in the foxeign affairs debate in the Council of State on
August 27, 1954, he declared: "This organization cannot by any stretch of
the imagination come under'tlie United Nations charter. The cha:?ter permits
regional organizations? This is an organization of outsiders t:^ying to
protect a region. It has no place under the United Nations, Me=n implied
that should SEATO be formed, It could extend no military aid to the three !"'
non-Communist states of Indo-China, south Viet Nam, Laos- and. Cambodia '--
unless the USSR approved. I'lenon said that the Geneva agreements provided
,'that- the Indo-Chinese states ;should not enter into a military alliance or
accept'any outside military 'aj.d unless their security was threat,ened, and in
.his opinion only the UN Securi.ty'Councii by unanimous vote could decide if
a violation of security occurred. In connection with the International
Control Commission sent to Indo-China it is to be noted that the Indian
Chairmen: of the three -supervi13ory commissions were apparently chosen
primarily ?by Krishna Menon. Two of them,' M. J. Desai and J. N. Khoela,
served under Menon while he was High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and
the third, G. Parthasarathy ie Menon's protdgd whom he knew during the
latterts assignment in London as editor-in-charge of the Press Trust of
India office from 191L8-1951.
During a meeting of. the Trusteeship Council of the Pacific Islands,
(TTPI)' in July 1954, Krishna Menon challenged the right of the United States
to use the area for a nuclear proving ground. 'He asked. that the U. S. cease
such 'tests pending determination by the International Court of. Justice of our
'legal-right to continue them in the territory.
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SINGH, Atvar
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First Secretary of the Permanent delegations Singh served as a,
member of the adviser-secretary group of.the Indian delegation in 1952
and 1953* He is a former Under Secretary of the Ministry . pf External
Affairs. In that capacity he was in charge of the section pertaining to
the .Arab World a d.Turkey.? Singh is believed to.be friendly to the U. S..
TRICUMDA S, Purshottamdas
An Indian delegate to the ninth session of the UN General Assembly,
Tricumdas was a member of the Praja Socialist Party national executive
for six years ending in January 1954, azd is one of those most prominently
encouraging rapprochement between the Socialist Party and the"Indiah
Natipnal.Congress. He: promoted, talks between Nehru and the head of the
Socialist Party, Jai Prakash,Narain,..,...and served :as. an adviser in those.
discussions. He is one of India,'.s outstanding lawyers, suave, effective,
ambitious, and wealthy.-.
Nothing has been reported concerning.Tricumdas' early life. After the
beginning of World War I.I, he ~ reportedly. engaged in .underground work together
with Aruna Asaf All, and pthex-less extreme socialist.leaders; was jailed
from November 1942 till October 1945, Now publicly anti-Communist,
Tricumda.s is a.member of the.-advisory committee,of. the Democratic Research
Service,, an anti-Communist organization in Bombay, and was instrumental
in releasing to the. press,. documents expos ng:Communist Party-secrets
from the 3rd National. (CPI).. Congress at Madur.i, South- India, January 1954?
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RAo, 11, Thiromaln.
N. Thiromal3.Rao making his debut at the UNGA as an ad-riser of the
Indian deiegaticn,, has bean Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture since
August 20.,.1950,'
' Borrx at Pithepuram. ;ast' Godavari District, Andhra., on Jai uary 2981901.9 Rao'was educated at P. R. College., Cocanada, He was,.L.member of the
Centra]...Legislative Assembly from 1937-1911; the Council of State from
1945-1947, and subsequently became the editor of the New Times, an English
daily newspaper of Madras. In 1948 he was a member of the Commonwealth.
Parliamentary delegation to England.
SAPRU,`Prakash Narayan
A delegate to . the, ,ninth session: of the UN General Assembly,, P. N;
Sapru is.a'retired Justice, of the Allahabad High Court, and son of the late
Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, a'fwm us Indian jurists P. N. Sapruts inclusion in
the delegation'is thought possibly to be due to personal connections with
the Nehru family, ...His career has been. primarily in law and education.
In 1947 he was chosen 'Pres;ident of the Indian Council of Wor;ld'Affairs :
He was an alternate Indian delegate to the UN General Assembly,, second part
of first session, in NewYDrk., in September 1946.
The following comment was based on observation of Mr. Sapruts behavior
a~ the Internatiohal Legal'Conf"erence,,in.New Delhi., Decembo37 1953., which
Sapru attended as Judge,-Of the? A1lahabqLd High Court, although he was not
a member of the gf#'icial Indian delegation. to the Conferences
Justice.Sapru`is~a portly person of medium height
He has greying hair attd bushy gray ,eyebrows. He wears ll estern,
style clothes, He speaks excellent English, but during the
only speech which the reporting officer heard him deliver to
the Conference, his mouth was so full of pan (betel nut) that he
was difficult to understand and one feared for the safety of the
occupants of the front row of seats.
From only curory observation$ the reporting officer concluded
that Sapru is a rather pompous person., vain and opinionated. He
did not hesitate to carry on conversations with his neighbors in
a rather loud voice when the proceedings of the Conference did not
interest him or when he happened to disagree with some point that a
speaker had made."
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