Word: thimayya
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...little chance of getting any back anyway. Wide-meshed barbed wire, and the ease with which the 22 can approach the Indian guards, would make escape easy if any of them really wanted to go home. At week's end the explainers handed Indian Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya a twelve-page letter to the pro-Red Americans. It might be the only "explaining" they would...
Either of two men deserves the title . . . Chancellor Konrad Adenauer [or] Lieut. General Kodendara S. Thimayya...
...India's Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, a man doing a commendable job in the world's toughest position...
Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya. Once more last week, as he has all along, Thimayya refused to let the Communists coerce "the boys," as he calls the P.W.s. On Jan. 22, the Indians on the scene would like simply to turn back the remaining P.W.s to their earlier keepers, the U.N. Command. On that day, said one of Thimayya's officers,"our job will be done...
...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...