5/21/2023 0 Comments Himalayan blunder by jp dalvi![]() ![]() “Instead of gracefully accepting responsibility for erroneous policies, the guilty men sought alibis and scapegoats. He did not even go through the motion of resigning he merely presented his trusted colleagues and military appointees as sacrificial offerings… “When the inevitable disaster came Nehru did not even have grace or courage to admit his errors or seek a fresh mandate from the people. Wrote Brigadier JP Dalvi in his book ‘Himalayan Blunder’: Krishna Menon was reluctantly made the scapegoat. Menon was only a protégé of Nehru, did his bidding, and became Defence Minister only in 1957. ![]() ![]() Such was the ignorance of the opposition that Kriplani and others asked Nehru to take over the defence portfolio from Menon! The poor fellows had no idea that the disaster both in the foreign policy and in the defence was actually thanks to Nehru. Such was the economy practised in sharing information with the public, the media, and even the parliament, and such was the economy with truth in Nehru’s democratic India that the blame for debacle in the India-China War came not on Nehru, the principal person responsible, but on Menon. ![]()
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