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dated November 18, 1956: China and the UN

The United Nations General Assembly on November 16 barred for at least another year any move to oust Nationalist China from the world organisation and admit the Peking regime. It approved a US resolution that there should be no consideration at this session of any proposal to change China's representation. An Indian move to reverse this by means of two amendments was defeated. Earlier, the leader of the Indian delegation, Mr. V.K.Krishna Menon, opening his hour-long speech, retaliated to an attack by Republican Senator William Knowland and advised him to "see a doctor or a psychopath" if he was suffering from shock. Senator Knowland, a member of the US delegation, had in a statement said he was shocked that Mr. Menon had apparently become the "floor leader" for the Soviet drive to bring Peking China into the UN. Mr. Menon declared, "No delegate has the right to question the integrity of another. It must not be allowed that India or any other delegation can be called the mouthpiece for any other country." He said the (Senator's) statement was a very inappropriate one to come from the delegate of a country with whom India maintained friendly relations. Mr. Menon said he hoped Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, leader of the US delegation, would disown the statement, and asked him to convey India's views to his Government. "It is my bounden duty to make a public protest about this and I will wait for a reply," he added.

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