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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yesterday," India's Prime Minister Nehru told an electrified Parliament, "I was thinking of informing the House of a certain development, but I hesitated to do so because I wanted it to be fully confirmed." Then, as the M.P.s broke into wild cheers, Nehru produced the news for which the whole free world had been waiting: Tibet's god-king, the 23-year-old Dalai Lama, had successfully eluded the Communists and reached India in safety...
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...
...most striking change in India was not in the leader but in the led. Outside the Chinese embassy in New 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...
What was surprising was that, despite these handicaps, Nepal ran smoother elections than many a more advanced nation. More than half the 109 Parliament seats went to the Nepali Congress Party. Communists got only a handful as did the party of Nepal's most colorful politician, anti-American K. I. Singh. Under Nepali Congress Party Leader (and prospective Premier) B. P. Koirala, Nepal will probably keep to the same course it pursued under King Mahendra, who ordered the elections (and will continue to reign as a constitutional monarch). Major difference is that now Nepal's rulers...
...night three weeks ago Mahdawi's show-which is conducted in Iraq's former Hall of Parliament, with spectators occupying the former Deputies' benches and Mahdawi and his fellow judges lolling on the speaker's rostrum-put four airmen in the dock for taking part in the Mosul revolt. It was a gala evening, witnessed by TIME Correspondent William McHale. Two hours beforehand every seat was filled; hundreds of ticketholders were turned away. The highlights of the performance...