Word: lamas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly three months since he first crossed over into India after his escape from the Chinese invaders, he had kept silent-but it was not for the want of anything to say. Last week, in the Himalayan foothills, Tibet's fugitive young (24) Dalai Lama finally summoned his first press conference...
...said, more than 65,000 of his people had died fighting the Chinese. The Reds were not only trying to settle 5,000,000 Chinese in Tibet, nearly double the native population; they were even trying to declare "the Lord Buddha a reactionary element." Today, said the Dalai Lama, there are only three classes of Tibetans: those deported, those in prison, and those doing forced labor...
...Dalai Lama had no intention of "leaving the nation's valiant defenders unaided . . . Wherever I am with my ministers, the people of Tibet will recognize in us the government of Tibet." He would carry his cause to all parts of the world, until Tibet gets back the freedom it enjoyed before the agreement of 1951. Though studiously polite about his host, the Dalai Lama gently hinted that he was getting a bit impatient with Prime Minister Nehru's obsession with getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give...
...Tibetan revolt against Red rule could not be explained away, it had to be shouted away. The horror expressed by neutral nations at Red brutality was answered by strident threats; even India's docile Prime Minister Nehru was pictured as an archvillain who is holding the escaped Dalai Lama "under duress." Now India joined the list of monstrous enemies: Formosa, Britain, the U.S., even tiny states like Thailand and Nepal. "We will never allow those foul hogs to poke their snouts into our beautiful garden!" shouted a Congress delegate...
...words in reply to the weeks of billingsgate that have poured from Peking's press and radio. Nehru was "greatly distressed" at Red China's brutal suppression of the Tibetan revolt and at the "hapless plight" of the Tibetan people. In answering the charge that the Dalai Lama was being held against his will at Mussoorie (TIME, May 4), he obliquely called the Red Chinese liars. "They have used the language of the cold war," said Nehru, "regardless of truth and propriety." Characteristically, Nehru regretted that on his own side "a small group of irresponsible people in Bombay...