Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru suggested that Red China send its own puppet ruler of Tibet, the Panchen Lama, plus any interested Red Chinese emissaries, to visit the Dalai Lama and see for themselves that he was not being held "under duress" as the Red radio proclaimed. Nehru hoped that conditions would "some day" relax so that the God-King might go home to Tibet. His own contribution, whether intentionally or not, was to deaden the world's outrage, while the Red Chinese put down the rebellion...
Sympathetic Concern. While the Dalai Lama posed for pictures at Foothills, the Red Chinese, who had let him slip through their fingers, tried to explain matters at the National People's Congress assembled in Peking. The new puppet ruler of Tibet, the 22-year-old Panchen Lama, had promised full support to the Red army's crushing of the rebellion and expressed "great sympathy and concern" for his friend, the Dalai Lama, "who has been abducted by the rebellious elements." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai unctuously declared that "although the Dalai Lama has been abducted...
...Shah's regime is not universally popular, Moscow's personal attack on the ruler led one irate left-wing Teheran lawyer to comment indignantly: "That's for us to do-not Radio Moscow." In fact, the Soviets may have found that their attacks were helping to unite, not divide, a proud and suspicious people...
Before leaving Lhasa, the Dalai Lama was hastily invested with full power as the ruler of Tibet and the regency abolished. In command of his country for the first time, just as it seemed on the point of dissolution, the Dalai Lama withdrew to the Indian border but did not cross over. Since it was clear that no power on earth was interested in aiding Tibet, the God-King opened negotiations at a distance with Red China. In May 1951, a 17-point agreement was signed between the two nations: Red China agreed that Tibet could retain autonomy and promised...
...Reds' proposals for communizing Tibet probably will be announced at the Chinese people's congress Friday. But the Panchen Lama, the Communists' puppet ruler, apparently gave his approval in advance...