Word: thimayya
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene now lie the precarious hopes of the P.W.s, for as the weeks go by, the clauses in the armistice terms and the hostile attitude of India's Prime Minister Nehru seem more and more stacked against the anti-Communist prisoners. Handsome, husky Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, 47, chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, was one of the first Indians to get into Sandhurst, Britain's West Point; he was the first Indian officer to command a brigade in World War II. "Thimmy" Thimayya, who won the D.S.O. against the Japanese, is perhaps the most promising...