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...Peking came delegations from both Lama factions, seeking the Red nod. First to arrive were gum-chewing, felt-hatted retainers of the Dalai Lama, who in December had fled his capital of Lhassa before the oncoming Chinese Red army (TIME, Jan. 8). Sitting in exile on India's border, the 16-year-old Lama had decided that it was better to rule under the Chinese Reds than not to rule...
...Christianity. Britons in Kashmir began to pack. At the Srinagar Club there were tea dancing and dinner jackets as usual, but the residents were signing up for planes and road convoys that would take them south, like Sir Hari Singh. One trouble was the pet dogs, the Lhassa terriers, Afghan hounds and Pomeranians. Transportation was short, and, it turned out, there were more dogs than Britons on the evacuation list...
Sanskrit Conference, 10. European attempts to reach Lhassa. Mr. Murray A. Potter. Geological Lecture-Room. University Museum...
Sanskrit Conference, 10. European attempts to reach Lhassa. Mr. Murray A. Potter. Geological Lecture-Room, University Museum...
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