Word: kaul
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Taskmaster for the border war is Lieut. General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, a Kashmiri Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army...
Indians trust Kaul's determination. Before his illness, he was responsible for one of the few Indian victories in the border war, when his troops routed the Chinese at Ndhola on Oct. 10, killing 100 of the attackers and driving back the remainder. A veteran who saw action against the Japanese in Burma during World War II and against the Pakistanis in 1948, Kaul also served as chief of staff of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission at the end of the Korean war, where he was accused of favoring the Communists. When he returned to India, Nehru jokingly asked...
Nehru fortnight ago appointed Lieut. General B. M. Kaul, 50. to act as "Commander of the Special Task Force to Intensify Operations Against the Chinese Intruders." A tough, Sandhurst-educated antiCommunist, Kaul was placed on indefinite leave last August after he questioned Defense Minister Krishna Menon's appeasement policy toward Red China. Kaul's new assignment from Nehru: ''To free our territory in the northeast frontier." Said Nehru at week's end: India's forces are "strongly positioned and in a large number operating from higher ground than the Chinese...