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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 2, Track 1, Page 6\nreally was the Indian who occupied the center of the stage and dominated\nthat whole matter. This, I think, was a surprise to us; we had not\nexpected that India was going to take any such role. When I was told that\nthis was go ing on, which first came in the field of rumor--We would get\nreports from our liaison of ficers that Mike Pearson was having meetings\nwi th Menon, that he had some ideas about it, and Selwyn Lloyd was, I had\nsome long talks with Madame Pandit to try to find out who was running the\nIndian delegation-whether she was, or he was, and what she felt about it.\nIt transpired at first that she didn't know; but she rapidly found out\nthat in respect to this point Menon was in communication with her brother\nand that he was the man who held the power. I think I also\nDR. OPPENHEIMER: Did they have Pentecar (sp?) in Peiping all this time? PANiKKAR\nMR. ACHESON:\nNo; Pentecar had left.\nDR. OPPENHEIMER: But they did have someone.\nnot\nMR. ACHESON:\nOh, yes; out/Pentecar.\nMR. JESSUP:\nPentecar left just before this, I think, and went to Egypt or to his home\nfor a lit tle while first.\nMR. RUSK:\nHe was at home for a while\nMR. ACHESON:\nI had several talks with Madame Pandit all through this and not only had\nthe very strong impression that she was not in -sympathy with this operation,\nand\nbut on several occasions she gave me considerable hèlp in doing things\na the\nthich were necessary` to oppose the worst points of it. It soon developed\nUs\nin October that Menon had got Selwyn Lloyd and Mike Pearson very much\nentangled in his web. My great problem was in 'finding out what was hap-\npening. Menon was an extremely skillful operator. He had one principle\nwhich almost amounted to genius and that was that he would never put any-\nthing on paper--there were no drafts; there were no memoranda; there was\nnothing ado except conversation. He was quite frank about this. We said:\n\"For goodness sake, write this down; every time you say it, it sounds\ndifferent; now, let's get a draft. \" And he'd say: \"No, that makes for"
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