Word: toed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Pit. Six hours and several miles later, the party reached a Chinese command post at Konka La, more than 16,000 ft. above sea level. The prisoners were herded into a 6-by-7-by-15 ft. pit normally used for storing vegetables, and covered with a tarpaulin...
Karam Singh's marathon interrogation began at 4 in the morning. He was asked to narrate the entire incident, but when he came to the point where the Chinese ambushers opened fire, the senior officer present "became wild and shouted back that it was incorrect, and that I must...
Allowed to sleep in an "unbearably" cold tent with insufficient blankets, Singh was awakened for another interrogation of 9½ hours and told he would not get adequate shelter until the examination was concluded to Chinese satisfaction. With this stimulus to speed and agreement, Singh gave precise details of the...
The Reenactment. A cameraman arrived at the outpost, and the prisoners were twice taken to the scene of the fight for propaganda films. Once, said Singh, "I was given a handkerchief and asked to wave it as if to give a signal to the men to open fire." The second...
After taking more than a month to answer Nehru's last note on the border dispute, China's Premier Chou En-lai last week called for a meeting in just eight days because of "our unshirkable responsibility not only to our two peoples, but also to world peace...