Indian Defense Minister V.K. Krishna Menon gestures during speech to United Nations General Assembly's political committee in New York today in which he pressed for a new voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing. He told the committee that both the western powers and Russians must share responsibility for resumption of tests. Menon's head is shaved as a result of a recent operation for the removal of a blood clot in his head.

Photo is dated 1961.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.