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...China battled with bombs and paratroops to blot out the last vestiges of independence in Tibet, and the Dalai Lama's spectacular escape into India (see FOREIGN NEWS), brought home the point for would-be neutralists in Asia and Africa that they stay neutral in the cold war to their ultimate peril...
...certain development, but I hesitated to do so because I wanted it to be fully confirmed." Then, as the M.P.s broke into wild cheers, Nehru produced the news for which the whole free world had been waiting: Tibet's god-king, the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, had successfully eluded the Communists and reached India in safety...
...Norbulingka, his summer palace outside Lhasa, and together with his mother, two sisters and a younger brother, headed south across the most forbidding mountain country in the world to join the Khamba tribesmen who had launched Tibet's revolt against Red Chinese tyranny. For 15 days the Dalai Lama and his tiny retinue traveled by foot and by mule-back, first across the Kyi Chu River, 25 miles south of Lhasa, then on up through the 17,000-ft. Che Pass...
...Chinese did not discover the Dalai Lama's escape until he had already been gone for two days. When they did, they insisted that he had been kidnaped by the rebels and spirited out of Lhasa "under duress." To back up the charge, Peking's embassy in New Delhi released three letters the Dalai Lama was supposed to have written to the acting Chinese representative in Tibet, General Tan Kuan-san. In each letter the Dalai Lama allegedly told "Dear Comrade, Political Commissar Tan" of the plots by a "reactionary clique" to foment trouble and even to take...
They made the mistake of letting the Dalai Lama visit India in 1956, where a free-spending six weeks made him aware of the outside world. Since then, though Radio Peking has on occasion quoted the Dalai Lama in dutiful denunciation of the American imperialists, he has in fact shown a captive's ability subtly to defy authority. The old saying is still true: "To hold Tibet firmly, the conqueror must win the Potala's top floor...