Word: bhutan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbor policy only encouraged the Chinese to look southward with greater interest. "Tibet is the palm of the hand, and the Chinese have it," says one Indian. "Now they want the five fingers without which the palm is useless." The five fingers (see color map) are Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the North East Frontier Agency. To the Chinese, all five stick out like sore thumbs...
...BHUTAN (pop. 700,000) is an autonomous Indian kingdom whose foreign affairs are administered by India. Red China chooses to ignore this arrangement, has offered economic aid to the Bhutanese directly. Primitive and virtually roadless, Bhutan was first opened up to the outside world in 1959; the country has only two doctors and about 20 pharmacists. India has sent a small military training mission into Bhutan to modernize its ragtag 10,000-man army...
India's appeasement only encouraged the Chinese to go further. China is plainly working to put India into the jaws of a giant Himalayan nutcracker. Recently China concluded a road-building treaty with Nepal, is offering economic aid to the Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim and Bhutan. The significance of the Chinese pincers movement finally occurred even to Menon. "A stab in the back," he com plained last month. "When did you realize this?" gibed Election Rival J. B. Kripalani in Parliament. "The day before yesterday?" But Menon still urged caution against "adventurism," said that the Chinese Communists should withdraw...
...Department of Education. Previously, he spent three years in Pakistan as a consultant to the Ford Foundation-Harvard Pakistan Project in Economic Planning. His foreign experience also includes service in Lapland, the Sudan and the Middle East. Last summer he was social and economic adviser to the government of Bhutan...
...days when the major studio bosses-Goldwyn, Mayer, the Warners, Cohn-were almost as well known as their stars. Now that Hollywood is often duller than its pictures, the mighty name symbolizing the new Age of the Independent Producer is roughly as well known as the incumbent ruler of Bhutan...