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From his gleaming white palace among the golden pagodas in Katmandu, hollow-cheeked King Mahendra issued a royal decree: the new Prime Minister of Nepal is Dr. Kunwar Inderjit Singh. To his neighbors in the two most populous nations in the world, the King's choice was of major significance. Tiny Nepal lies on a 4,000-ft.-to-9,000-ft. slope of the Himalayas between Red China and India, and is a pawn in the tense frontier rivalry between them. The Foreign Ministries in both countries last week probably had legitimate misgivings about how Singh will swing...
...Hood of the Himalayas" when he began parceling out land to peasant farmers during a nationwide revolt against the autocratic Rana dynasty in 1950. Worried by Singh's deeds of derring-do as head of a band of ragged Nepalese army irregulars, nervous Indian army "observers" stationed in Nepal clapped him into jail. He escaped the Indians, but was picked up again. One night in 1952 Singh broke jail and led a coup that captured the capital's airfield, treasury and arsenal. The then King of the day, fearful of the Indians, would not let Singh form...
...Shooters. Communist China rolled out the Red carpet for Singh, called him the "potential leader of Free Nepal." But suddenly he was dropped by the Communists (a casualty in Chou En-lai's new policy of coexistence with India), and at the Bandung Conference Chou En-lai agreed to return Singh and his followers to Nepal. Singh arrived in Katmandu to the sound of brass bands and cheering thousands, found that corruption and inefficiency in local government had enhanced the memory of him as a Robin Hood. To stimulate the legend of his past military feats, he took...
...always at hand when Colette required it. In all their 29 years together, there were no "scenes," there was no "betrayal"; only a diligent, equable harmony based on what Colette called "conjugal courtesy" and likened to the Briton nightly donning his dinner jacket in "a lost corner of Nepal." When she deemed the time had come for "passionate love" to give place to "more lasting sentiments," she quietly but frankly informed him of the fact. Goudeket never saw her in the morning before she had done her face, and when the Gestapo came to their Paris flat...
...Asia, more and more Americans are searching out lightly traveled Shangri-Las, and are willing to trade off some comfort for new romance. After hundreds of years of isolation in the Himalayas, Nepal's Katmandu is opening up to venturesome tourists. Now peaceful, Viet Nam next month will open a hunting bureau in Saigon, with safari guides, rifles and elephants for hire. Package price for hunting panther, tiger, elephant, buffalo, bear: $8 a day. In all, 115,000 Americans will travel in the Pacific-a gain of 15% over last year...