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Soon after India's 5,000-man Custodial Force sailed last fall for Korea, Prime Minister Nehru promised his followers that India "would not run away from her responsibilities." These were: 1) hold the 22,500 anti-Communist and 350 pro-Communist prisoners, with minimum bloodshed, for 120 days; 2) supervise explanations, prevent coercion and guarantee repatriation for those who requested it; and 3) release all remaining P.W.s as free civilians at the end of the 120 days -at 12:01 a.m., Jan. 23, 1954-India's disciplined troops and civil servants handled the first two jobs...
...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...
...Nehru thereby avoided the onus of releasing the P.W.s himself, and tried to place a cruel stigma upon the U.N.'s inevitable release of the anti-Communist P.W.s: if the U.N. let the prisoners go, as it had repeatedly promised them, it would be guilty of "violating the armistice." Nehru then asked his sister, U.N. General Assembly President Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, to hold a special Assembly debate in February on the Korean "deadlock," and any nation which had not responded to the invitation by Jan. 22 .would be considered to have accepted. In this Nehru went...
...their freedom, the North-West Frontier Province, 92% Moslem, voted adherence to Pakistan. Ghaffar Khan then set up a clamor for a separate Pathan nation, to be called Pathanistan or Pukhtoonistan. Once again he was jailed for subversion -this time by the Pakistan government. India's Jawaharlal Nehru called him "one of the bravest and straightest men in India" and bewailed his imprisonment, saying it was "a thorn in my heart...
...when, upon leaving jail. Ghaffar Khan proved to be as independent and plain-speaking as ever. To the cheering crowds who garlanded him with flowers, he declared that Kashmir rightfully belongs to Pakistan-and that he had twice offered his services in Kashmir on Pakistan's behalf. Jawaharlal Nehru had no comment...