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Manila announced that Tibet's Dalai Lama, in Indian haven after escaping the Red Chinese invaders of his land, had won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership, a salute for the god-king's role in Tibet's "gallant struggle...
...Americans joined with other anti-Communists in Vienna to undercut the festival in a variety of ways. Free bus trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally. All week long, Americans slipped anti...
After three months of seclusion in India's hill resort of Mussoorie, Tibet's self-exiled Dalai Lama, 24, broke his routine to witness a spectacle that strongly reminded him of his own people's bondage under the Red Chinese invaders. The attraction: The Ten Commandments, one of the late Cecil B. DeMille's last epics, his twice-filmed tale of Moses' struggle against Egyptian terror and tyranny. The movie won a rave notice from the God-King: "I liked it very much. I was greatly moved...
...Tired. In his exile at Mussoorie in northeast India, Tibet's rightful ruler, the Dalai Lama, declared that "wherever I am accompanied by my ministers, the people of Tibet look upon us as their government." His mild statement of sovereignty was attacked not by the Red Chinese but by his Indian hosts. Nehru's government sharply pointed out that there was no question of a Tibetan government-in-exile "under the Dalai Lama functioning in India," and seemed to concede that Tibet is an internal affair of Red China. Sounding both old and tired of it all, Prime...
...much of the Indian press seemed prepared to write off Tibet as a lost cause, India still had a voice and a conscience. Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself in the place of the Dalai...