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...first months after Red China's savage suppression of last year's Tibetan revolt, flight was the order of the day. More than 18,000 Tibetan refugees, including the Dalai Lama, poured into India alone. Last week, from the tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) buffer state of Bhutan on Tibet's southern border, came reports that the mood in Tibet has changed dramatically. Far fewer Tibetans now seek to escape. Instead, they stand and fight...
Recent arrivals from Tibet report that Red China has now dropped even the pretense that Communist rule in Tibet has the approval of the Panchen Lama. First employed by the Chinese as a puppet against his traditional rival, the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama is now a prisoner in Suthilinga palace in Lhasa, suspected of organizing the underground. Meanwhile, Tibetans estimate that the Chinese have carried off $420 million worth of monastery valuables, turning many a wrecked temple into a dance hall or military head quarters...
...staffer since 1949, McLaughlin has written in Foreign News since 1957, specializing in the Far East. Besides cover stories on Indonesia's President Sukarno (March 10, 1958), Japan's Princess Michiko (March 23) and Red China's Liu Shao-chi (Oct. 12), McLaughlin wrote the Dalai Lama cover (April 20), which Connery also reported...
...weaknesses. It was a threat that Nehru, typically, first tried not to see, then ignored and then tried to argue away. This spring he dismissed news stories of Tibet's revolt against the Red Chinese as "mere bazaar talk." When Tibet's religious leader, the young Dalai Lama, and 13,000 Tibetan refugees came pouring across India's border, Nehru seemed acutely uncomfortable. To Red China's hysterical charges that Indian "expansionists" were behind the revolt and that the "command center" of the rebels was in the Indian border town of Kalimpong, Nehru entered a soft...
...brilliant intellectual (Mortimer Adler) appears just ahead of a retired madam (Polly Adler); the Dalai Lama flanks Dagmar. Henry Ford II shares a page with Tennessee Ernie Ford; Dr. Albert Schweitzer mingles on page 675 with Cleveland Indian Pitcher Herb Score. What brings these unlikely companions together is the new International Celebrity Register ($26), by Society Scribe Cleveland Amory (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts...