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...mythology of India, the Himalaya is the home of the gods. Shiva and Vishnu wander through the everlasting snows on the ridge of the world. Thus, when European expeditions trail off into the mountains of Nepal, Buddhist peasants assume that the strangers are going to look for heaven. Last week the film record of the two latest Himalayan expeditions, put on public view, showed heaven and hell interfused in some of the most terrifyingly beautiful pictures ever to move across a screen...
Along the Indian-Chinese frontier, the longest frontier in the world between oppression and a democracy, Communist infiltrators are burrowing into the border states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim-which lie upon India's side of the great Himalayan battlement (see below). From this frontier, where ice-winds howl and lichen creeps around the tall mountains, an Indian Army Mission reported: "Long considered impregnable ... the frontier . . . [is] now looked upon as a possible route of infiltration, if not of invasion...
...Communist agents from Red China are infiltrating India itself. Indian troops have caught 300 in the past year. Some said they were deserters from the Chinese army. Others, disguised as lamas, beggars and traders, were riding brashly into India on the Tibetan caravans. Red Chinese troops cross regularly into Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim, cutting timber, surveying the passes, making contact with local Communists...
...Already, Nepal has a strong and fast-expanding Communist movement, which somehow gets plenty of arms and ammunition through the Himalayan defiles. Communist guerrillas launch periodic forays against Nepalese troops and government depots, and have twice tried to blast their way to power in bold but premature uprisings. Bhutan, which lies a full nine days' mule trek from the nearest Indian trading post, is heavily infiltrated by Red Chinese regulars who patrol across the border at will. And in Sikkim, a resident wrote to the London Spectator, "It will be only a matter of time before [the Chinese] start...
...meet this danger, the Indian army put a 190-man mission into Nepal, and built the first military road from India to Katmandu. The first dusty Indian jeep sped along this road last week, a symbol of India's belated concern for her great mountain frontier...