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General Chang planned to score a political as well as military victory. In addition to Chinese troops, he intended to take the field with 14,000 Red-trained Tibetans. And io make further propaganda, he asked the Dalai Lama, the nation's religious leader, to demonstrate his solidarity by lending his 5,000-man bodyguard to the expedition. The 23-year-old Dalai Lama, though a virtual prisoner of the Reds, politely refused...
Last week the irritated Red commander sent another message to the Dalai Lama, peremptorily ordering him to report alone, even without his senior abbots, to Red headquarters in Lhasa. As word spread among the 55,000 inhabitants of the city, angry Tibetans thronged around the towering, 40-ft. Potala (Winter Palace), so that the Dalai Lama could not leave it, even if he wished to. When the Dalai Lama's mother heard the news, she burst into tears, and a crowd of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general, begging help for the Dalai Lama. Some Lhasans broke...
India's Nehru, who has as much reason to care as anyone, has displayed a great deal of feeling for the Dalai Lama, whom he hopes will continue to be safe. But he does not seem to know how he should feel towards the Tibetans themselves. He praised India's consul general in Tibet for refusing to accompany Tibetan women in a protest march, and declared, "We have no intention of interfering in the internal affairs of China, with whom we have friendly relations." It's not, Nehru feels, lack of concern but "noninterference...
...Evangelist, Hughes Cuenod stood out, his lyric tenor voice reaching every corner of Symphony Hall, although he began to tire in part two. Mack Harrell sang Jesus with great expressiveness; the most tender moment of the whole afternoon as it should have been, was his "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani...
Kalimpong heard that the Dalai Lama is safe, though his whereabouts remained a mystery. Dispatches from Gangtok said some Tibetans are en route to New Delhi to plead with Prime Minister Nehru for active intervention. High Chinese Nationalist officials said both sides had ordered up reinforcements in this gravest outbreak of hostilities since Red Chna took over Tibet eight years...