Word: thimayya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called the Indian delegates in for tea and gave them a list of instructions (e.g., you must not tell the Indian press what is going on). Red China haggled endlessly over details and often boycotted the talks without notice-particularly when India's truce-supervising General Thimayya made some decision in favor of the U.N. in Korea...
India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya pleaded with the Communists to accept the P.W.s "under protest." The Communists refused. "Ah, well," said Thimayya...
...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...
...Korea, General Thimayya, who has been publicly reproved by Nehru for his independent desire to free the P.W.s, found himself reversed. Privately he told Swiss and Swedish neutrals that he had got the best compromise he could from Nehru, but in public, Good Soldier Thimayya unflinchingly accepted responsibility for Nehru's decision. "Any agreement, General?" called out one U.N. newsman, as Thimayya sludged through Panmunjom's melting snow the day Nehru's stand was announced. "No, no agreement," he replied, "just unilateral action." "By whom?" Thimayya drummed his swagger stick against his chest: "By me." "Inalienable Right...
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...