V. K. Krishna Menon

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Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (Malayalam: [ʋeŋːaːlil krʂɳɐn krʂɳɐ menoːn]) (3 May 1896 – 6 October 1974) was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement and India's foreign relations. He was among the major architects of Indian foreign policy, was India's first High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and later India's Defence Minister. In 1928, Menon founded the India League in London to demand total independence from the British rule in the Indian subcontinent. Whilst in Britain he worked as an editor and helped found Pelican Books. Towards the end of the 1940s, he presided Indo-British matters and caused the selection of the last British Viceroy of India, Louis Mountbatten. He worked with Nehru, Mountbatten, Sardar Patel, and V.P. Menon to work out the mechanics of Indian independence. After the independence of India, he facilitated international diplomacy and resolutions in situations such as the...

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