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Since then, as anyone would expect, the Kings of Nepal have been Kings in name only, and the Ranas have been hereditary Prime Ministers. They made a good thing out of it. Half of Nepal's $10,000,000 state revenue finds its way to members of the Rana family. One Rana is said to own 300,000 acres of land, which would be a big farm even in Texas, but is enormous in the Himalaya-topped little land of Nepal...
...public life, even less was known until December 1948, when Loy W. Henderson went to Nepal as the first U.S. diplomatic representative to that kingdom. Prime Minister Rana was somewhat embarrassed to learn that Minister Henderson bore a letter from President Truman addressed to the King, in person. After due deliberation, Rana decided that the privilege of getting letters from Harry Truman be added to barley-throwing and being called Sr15. Accordingly, a great durbar was held, and Minister Henderson handed the King his letter. A TIME correspondent who went in with the U.S. mission noticed that the King seemed...
Whatever his Rana-enforced limitations, the King is the hero of the anti-Rana Nepal Congress Party, which seeks to establish a constitutional monarchy. Recently, leaders of this party moved in from India, stepped up their agitation against the Ranas. When a plot to assassinate the Prime Minister was thwarted, the King asked Prime Minister Rana for permission to leave the country. The present Sr1³, unlike Jung Bahadur Rana, refused to let the King go into exile. The King, with some of his jewels and both of his wives, sneaked into the Indian embassy, claimed the right of asylum...
Back in Kathmandu, Prime Minister Rana put null grandson, Gyanendra, aged 3, on Nepal's throne. Rebellion against this act broke out here & there, but Rana's government claimed it had things under control...
Chinese Communist march into Tibet. Truth is, there are no roads between Tibet and Nepal, and the Communists, for once, had little or nothing to do with null flight. It is just the way things are (and for 104 years have been) in the mysterious mountain kingdom of Nepal...