Word: kalimpong
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...Agent S. Sinha in Lhasa reported that the Tibetan capital had not yet been captured. No one could say exactly how far off the Communists were; it could be 60 to more than 200 miles. Newsmen tried to check further with the Tibetan mission in Kalimpong. Lhasa's taciturn envoys said that they knew little of what might be happening at home. Told that the Reds were reported less than 100 miles from his country's capital, Finance Minister Trepon Shakabja, head of the mission, blandly replied: "Well, if that is so, it is a sorry business." Apparently...
...sign that it wishes to stay independent, Tibet decided last year, after centuries of mountain isolation, to send an ambassador to London. A prominent Tibetan, one Yuthok Dzasa, was chosen for the post, started his long trip down from the capital of Lhasa. He stopped off at Kalimpong, a small outpost in the hills of northeast India, to clear up the diplomatic preliminaries with Britain. In anticipation of the barbaric fashions of the Court of St. James's, Yuthok cut off his waist-length hair, the mark of a Tibetan layman* of distincton...
Then, still at Kalimpong, Yuthok got word from Lhasa that his trip was off. Britain had never signaled a welcome for the Tibetan emissary: it did not want to antagonize the Chinese Communists, with whom it has been trying to shake hands ever since it offered recognition of the Reds last January. Lhasa, getting nervous about Mao Tse-tung's increasingly noisy promises to send his armies in to "liberate Tibet," thought Yuthok had better turn around and come home...