Word: thimayya
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...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...
...deadlocked days, the 7,800 suspicious North Korean prisoners would not see the Communist explainers at Panmunjom. Then India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya persuaded them they had nothing to fear. "I advised the P.W.s to trust me," he said, "and I would see they were treated with fairness and integrity...
...days later, Peking radio needled the Indians for the first time since they came to Korea; they called upon them to "implement the armistice agreement." The Indians were finding the Communists "almost incredibly unreasonable," and an Indian general charged Pekin radio with at least seven "distortions of truth." General Thimayya, the commission's able chairman, was apparently convinced that the Communist refusal to see any more Chinese P.W.s showed that they meant to wreck the explanations altogether. His on-the-scene appreciation of Communist tactics meant nothing to New Delhi, where Nehru's government refuses to believe evil...
...through what the U.N. called a "cruel and inhuman ordeal." Seventeen times the P.W. tried to leave the tent, but was induced to return. Seven times the U.N. observer protested, often with Swiss and Swedish support; the Indian chairman denied the appeal. But Indian General Thimayya heard what was going on and hurried over to the tent. He listened, then led the P.W. out by the hand, while the explainers shouted, "Come back, come back." The third day's count: explanations, 430; conversions...