K. P. S. Menon (senior)
Kumara Padma Menon Sivasankara C.I.E. ( Born October 18, 1898 in Kottayam, † 22 November 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 (District) ). KPS Menon married Saraswathi Sankaran Nair Anujee, they had four daughters to their sons belonged KPS Menon Jr., appointed on 28 March 1985 as ambassador to Beijing. 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 1896 established the Alumni Association which regain the independence of India was looking for.
When shooting competition for the Indian Civil Service, he won first place and took effect in 1922 into this. He was District Magistrate of Tiruchirappalli. He was a civil servant of British India in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He was in Bharatpur ( State ) when he was inducted into the Order of the Indian Empire on January 1, 1943 Divan ( Council). Under the government of Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, he was Ambassador of British India at Chiang Kai- shek in Chongqing. From 25 April to 26 June 1945, he headed the advisory group of the delegation of British India to the Conference of San Francisco.
After August 1945, he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister for plénipotentiaire in the Republic of China, including him, George VI. (United Kingdom) issued by an accreditation letter.
In 1947 he was chairman of the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea ( UNTCOK ).
From April 16 1948 to 21 September 1952, he was State Secretary in the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From September 21 1952 to 1961 he was ambassador to Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. At the same time he was accredited to the governments in Warsaw and Budapest.
From 1965 he was chairman of the Индийско - советского культурного общества (Indo- Soviet Cultural Association ).
As of 1970, the Presidency of the World Peace Council.
1979 International Lenin Peace Prize he was awarded.
Publications
He has published over a dozen books on travel and diplomacy in Asia. His autobiography is titled: Many Worlds or Many Worlds Revisited.