Word: assam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosophy in the Rain. At midweek, Nehru collected an escort of Indian M.P.s and flew in an air force Dakota (DC-3) over the flood-devastated provinces of Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. Hundreds had drowned; scores of thousands were homeless in an area almost the size of South Carolina. Later, from a low-flying helicopter, Nehru saw the levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills...
...Until I came to India," Redding says, "I had no idea that there was in me so great an urge to defend America . . . Communism meant little more than inter esting reading in the newspapers . . ." In India he met the enemy face to face-in Assam villages, where "even the small children gathered with their elders ... to chorus Jai to the Red flag"; in Hyderabad, where scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier...
...Armed Red Chinese squads are striking across India's northeast frontier into Assam, pillaging isolated villages, raping women and seizing livestock. On at least two occasions, the Chinese invaders fought pitched battles against Indian border guards before withdrawing. ¶Red Chinese thugs are waylaying and robbing Hindu pilgrims on the way to the headwaters of the sacred river Ganges, at Gangotri, on India's northern border. ¶ Mao Tse-tung's warlords are grabbing the bulk of India's trade with Tibet, beating, murdering and exacting protection money from Indian merchants who try to compete...
...General Thimayya was in command in Kashmir, for example, he dynamited every border pass within reach without bothering to check with Nehru. And "back there" today, India's generals are quietly mustering the bulk of the Indian army in a great line of camps that ranges, arclike, from Assam to Kashmir. Travelers report that Indian "militia" are everywhere, maneuvering in the field, crowding trucks on dusty mountain paths, riding the narrow-gauge railway that puffs up to the resort town of Darjeeling...
Left Hook. In the event of war, India's generals do not expect the Chinese to strike their main blow across the Himalayas-although they are taking no chances. They expect instead a Chinese left hook through Burma and Assam towards Calcutta. Short of war, the generals agree that infiltration is the danger...