Sir Richard Stafford Cripps was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat.
Stafford Cripps
Cripps in 1930
Sketch of Cripps commissioned by the Ministry of Information in the World War II period
Cripps meeting Mahatma Gandhi during the Second World War
Vengalil Krishna Kurup Krishna Menon was an Indian academic, independence activist, politician, lawyer, and statesman. During his time, Menon contributed to the Indian independence movement, India's foreign relations as de facto foreign minister, one of the major architects of Indian foreign policy, and acted as Jawaharlal Nehru's diplomat.
Menon, c. 1950s
V.K. Krishna Menon (age 62) giving a luncheon in 1958 in honour of His Royal Highness Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Andrei Gromyko, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union.
1st Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru with V. K. Krishna Menon (age 60) in United Nations in December 1956.
Menon was frequently vilified in the Western press, which described or depicted him as a "snake-charmer", as in TIME magazine's 1962 cover portrait.