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...voice of the quisling sounded last week over the roof of the world. In mountain-locked Lhasa, the tame Panchen Lama parroted the words of his Red Chinese masters, told Tibetans that their only choice was the "building up of a new and socialist Tibet" or preserving "the cruel, dark and backward serf system forever." The Chinese Reds, admitting that the rebellion still continued, ominously suggested that they might set up their notorious People's Courts to try recalcitrant landlords and monks. ("If those who are most hated by the people and whose lives are demanded by them admit...
...leaders to quit office and mingle with the masses. He fiercely attacked Nehru's endless temporizing with the Communists, supported the direct-action groups in Kerala, and demanded that India do something about Red China's aggression in Tibet. Last week he called on the exiled Dalai Lama, and in the face of Nehru's indifference, urged the envoys of 14 Afro-Asian countries to unite in protest against Red China's blood actions in Tibet...
...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...