Word: thimayya
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...Unilateral Action." In two similar notes, framed in New Delhi by Nehru, signed in Panmunjom by Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, India told the Communists and the U.N. that it would turn back the P.W.s to their original captors starting Jan. 20, three days before the deadline. India warned that the P.W.s must be detained indefinitely behind barbed wire until the long-stalled political conference, or a bilateral U.N.-Communist agreement, can determine their fate...
India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who hesitates to do anything that would vex Red China, has already communicated his misgivings about the Jan. 23 release to able Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who is responsible for the Indian troops guarding the prisoners. Nehru thinks that the prisoners should be held at least 30 days beyond the release date set in the armistice agreement. But last week U.S. observers on the scene believed that Thimayya had convinced his boss in New Delhi of another proposition: India cannot try to hold the prisoners beyond the deadline without risking a mass breakout...
...extend the period of explanations (as the Communists have demanded), and thought the P.W.s should not go free on Jan. 22, though that is what the armistice provides. Nehru then gave M.P.s the first sensation of the day: he snubbed his patient commander in Korea, Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who believes the P.W.s should go free on the 22nd. Nehru faintly praised Thimayya's "considerable ability," but snapped that India, and not Thimayya, was chairman of the neutral commission. "General Thimayya is not the chairman in his own personal capacity...
...little chance of getting any back anyway. Wide-meshed barbed wire, and the ease with which the 22 can approach the Indian guards, would make escape easy if any of them really wanted to go home. At week's end the explainers handed Indian Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya a twelve-page letter to the pro-Red Americans. It might be the only "explaining" they would...
Either of two men deserves the title . . . Chancellor Konrad Adenauer [or] Lieut. General Kodendara S. Thimayya...