Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TAIPEI, Formosa, March 26--Rebels in Tibet have cut supply lines of the Red Chinese garrison, forcing it to rely on airdrops from China proper, Nationalist China Vice President Chen Cheng asserted today...
...difficult to see how she could attempt anything more vigorous than a "strong moral stand" against China. Until the West revises its concepts of what a revolution is and what "internal affairs" are, it is unlikely that any help will be given groups like the Tibetans. And since Red China is not a member, even the United Nations cannot be appealed to in this case...
...DELHI, India, March 24--Peace was restored in Lhasa, the two-mile high capital of Tibet. Amid indications that Red China's troops had stemmed the weekend revolt, there was speculation that guerrilla warfare might persist in the countryside...
Roundabout advice to Tibetans in Kalimpong, an Indian trading center on Tibet's frontier, said Lhasa was quiet, though tense. One unverified report said 300 Red troops and 50 to 60 Tibetans were killed. The battle was set off Friday by Tibetan fears that the Communist overlords planned to kidnap the Dalai Lama, the 23-year-old king called "the living Buddha...
...Dalai Lama is safe, though his whereabouts remained a mystery. Dispatches from Gangtok said some Tibetans are en route to New Delhi to plead with Prime Minister Nehru for active intervention. High Chinese Nationalist officials said both sides had ordered up reinforcements in this gravest outbreak of hostilities since Red Chna took over Tibet eight years...