Word: thimayya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defeat, and accused the Indian command of double-dealing: they were grim when the Communists put the P.W.s through hour-long inquisitions, and were ready to screen the P.W.s themselves rather than tolerate any more of such violence. "It is inhuman!" snapped India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya. "We have placed our foot into a pit of snakes," said one of his officers...
...Nehru is perfectly willing to organize the defense of India "back there"-an hour or so from the border. He gives the Indian army remarkable autonomy in such "military matters." When Lieut. 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...
...shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered a ten-minute recess for every tent, and instructed his officers to see that explanations were not dragged on after the P.W.s' intentions had been made clear. "Are you expecting any more trouble?" someone...
Letters from Home. Next day he called a press conference about the Communist go-slow campaign. "It is inhuman," said Sandhurst-educated General Thimayya in precise British accent. "As long as India is responsible, I cannot permit this to grow." Thimayya thought the explainers should get through a compound of 500 P.W.s a day or "forget about those who are not explained to." If the explanations stalled altogether, Thimayya implied, he would use his own troops to give the P.W.s a fair hearing...
...Then Thimayya disposed of another Red trick. The 22 U.S. and one British "nonrepat" P.W.s complained they were getting mail from the U.S. designed to "intimidate, slander, coerce and bribe" them to go home; they demanded that the neutrals censor their mail. Thimayya said all right, if the other neutrals agreed, but "I asked them what we should do in the case of a letter from a man's wife who writes 'Oh, darling, please come home to me,' and they seemed a little unclear...