Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deep Freeze. The Chinese now insist that even India's consul in Lhasa carry an identity card. And India's once well-treated ambassador to Peking is now getting the deep-freeze treatment previously reserved for the out-of-favor Yugoslav ambassador...
...covetous glances at the Himalayan buffer states of Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist...
...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...
...rebellion had been put down, this time with 2,000 rebel casualties and the "wiping out of rebel nests" along the Indian border. At least one man outside Red China knew pretty well what was happening across his secluded border, but Nehru was not saying. His consulate in Lhasa has the only radio link with the free world. But, for reasons of state, as well as personal inclination, Nehru was following a policy of see-no-evil, speak-no-evil regarding Red China. There were reports that he had sent additional troop re-enforcements to the Tibet border...
...Nehru emerged from Birla House and, faced by a battery of cameras and microphones, gave reporters a two-minute interview. It had been, said Nehru, "a very full talk, I hope a helpful talk." Then he offered an unintentional assist to the Red propagandists by conceding that, while in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama had indeed written "friendly" letters to the Red commandant because he 1) was passing through difficult and troubled times, and 2) was trying to avoid open conflict with Peking...