Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nehru's announcement capped one of the epic escape stories of history. On the night of March 17, under cover of darkness, Tibet's Living Buddha slipped out of the 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...
...Asians kicking Asians around is not a prospect that pleases," declared the Times of Indonesia. In Rangoon the Nation bluntly declared that this was "no time for neutrality," urged the Burmese government to reconsider "seriously" its foreign policy. Even the high panjandrum of Asian neutralism, India's Nehru, showed signs of distress-and the Indian public showed far more. "Mr. Nehru's India," declared London's Economist, "may be emerging from the age of innocence. In later years, the Republic of India may look back upon this month as its moment of truth...
...most respects, the Prime Minister of India was much the same old Nehru after Tibet as he had been before: while granting political asylum to the Dalai Lama, he was still busily placating Peking. When Red China charged that Kalimpong was the "command center" of the rebellion, Nehru at first denied the charge, then admitted that the border town was indeed a hotbed of spies-"spies who are Communist, antiCommunist, red, yellow, pink, white." He refused to be bothered by the fact that the Chinese embassy circulated an editorial repeating the old Kalimpong charges even after he denied them; after...
Nevertheless, for all his tergiversations, Nehru had taken, for Nehru, his own giant step. For the first time, he actually talked back to the Chinese Communists. When Peking declared that any discussion of the Tibet rebellion in the Indian Parliament would be "impolite and improper," Nehru hotly retorted: "It is open to this House, this Parliament, to discuss any matter it chooses." He even expressed public doubt as to the authenticity of the "rather surprising letters" the Dalai Lama was supposed to have written. "I should like to have a little greater confirmation about them," he said, "about what they...
...Delhi, members of a right-wing Hindu party demonstrated against the "atrocities" in Tibet. In Parliament, cries of "Shame! Shame!" greeted the Indian Communist Party when it offered its congratulations to Peking for "leading the people of Tibet to prosperity and equality." "Why," asked the Indian Express of Nehru, "this strange tenderness for Communist feelings as contrasted with the disregard for the sensitivities of the democracies?" Said the Hindustan Times: "Let us hold our heads low. A small country on our border has paid the ultimate penalty for its temerity to aspire to independence . . . Much else could die with Tibet...