KPS menon

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Kumara Padma Sivasankara Menon C.IE (born October 18, 1898 in Kottayam , † November 22, 1982 ) was an Indian diplomat .

Life

KPS Menon was the third son of Janaki Amma and NC Kumara Menon, Vakil, a lawyer from Ottapalam ( Palakkad ). KPS Menon married Saraswathi Anujee Sankaran Nair, they had four daughters, one of their two sons was KPS Menon junior , who was appointed ambassador to Beijing on March 28, 1985. KPS Menon was the grandfather of Shivshankar Menon .

KPS Menon attended the School of the Church Mission Society in Kottayam, the Madras Christian College and studied at Oxford University , where he was chairman of the Oxford Majlis of an alumni association founded in 1896 which sought to regain Indian independence.

In the admission competition to the Indian Civil Service , he took first place and entered this in 1922. He was District Magistrate of Tiruchirappalli . He was a British Indian official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . He was divan in Bharatpur when he was inducted into the Order of the Indian Empire on January 1, 1943 . Under the government of Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell , he was Ambassador of British India to Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing . From April 25 to June 26, 1945, he headed the Advisory Group of the British India Delegation to the San Francisco Conference .

After August 1945 he was envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in the Republic of China , including George VI. issued an accreditation letter.

In 1947 he was chairman of the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea ( UNTCOK ).

From April 16, 1948 to September 21, 1952 he was State Secretary in the Indian Foreign Ministry. From September 21, 1952 to 1961 he was ambassador to Josef Stalin and Nikita Sergejewitsch Khrushchev . At the same time he was accredited by the governments in Warsaw and Budapest .

From 1965 he was chairman of the Индийско-советского культурного общества (Indo-Soviet Cultural Association).

From 1970 was in the chairmanship of the world peace council .

In 1979 he was awarded an International Lenin Peace Prize.

Publications

He has published over a dozen books on travel and diplomacy in Asia. His autobiography is entitled: Many Worlds or Many Worlds Revisited .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mahatma Gandhi University , KPS Menon
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 32763, HMSO, London, November 3, 1922, p. 7802 ( PDF , accessed November 29, 2011, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 35841, HMSO, London, 29 December 1942, p. 7 ( PDF , accessed on 29 November 2011, English).
  4. ^ The Chinese People at War : Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937–1945, p. 1967
  5. ↑ KPS Menon, Many Worlds Revisited : An Autobiography, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1981, 425 pp., 228
  6. ^ Paul M. Edwards, Historical Dictionary of the Korean War, p. 179
predecessor Office successor
Indian ambassador in Chongqing
1943–1946 		K. Madhava Panikkar
Foreign Secretary (India)
1948–1952 		Ratan Kumar Nehru
S. Radhakrishnan Indian ambassador to Moscow
1952–1961 		Subimal bun
personal data
SURNAME Menon, KPS
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Menon, Kumara Padma Sivasankara (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Kottayam
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1982