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...conjunction chilled superstitious souls all over the world. For weeks Indian soothsayers had been predicting floods, earthquakes and several other forms of calamity (TIME, Jan. 19). Some of the doomsayers saw only two days of danger; some warned that the world could not relax for five nervous years. In Sikkim, the scheduled marriage of the maharajah's son to New York Post-Debutante Hope Cooke was put off until 1963. The ill-omened year 1962, said the royal astrologers, was no time for a princely wedding...
India's appeasement only encouraged the Chinese to go further. China is plainly working to put India into the jaws of a giant Himalayan nutcracker. Recently China concluded a road-building treaty with Nepal, is offering economic aid to the Himalayan kingdoms of Sikkim and Bhutan. The significance of the Chinese pincers movement finally occurred even to Menon. "A stab in the back," he com plained last month. "When did you realize this?" gibed Election Rival J. B. Kripalani in Parliament. "The day before yesterday?" But Menon still urged caution against "adventurism," said that the Chinese Communists should withdraw...
Asked why the border was not better defended, Nehru replied that it is 2,500 miles long, remote, mountainous and scarcely accessible. What about Chinese claims to the tiny Himalayan nations of Bhutan and Sikkim? Said Nehru: "Our position is quite clear. Any aggression against Bhutan and Sikkim will be considered as aggression against India...
Even more distressing to Indians are China's covetous glances at the Himalayan buffer states of Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They...
...Tibet's famed arrow message service, a primitive but effective system under which messages tied to arrows are shot across rivers and deep ravines along key routes. Arrow messages, couriers on mountain ponies, native runners brought word that the Red Chinese had sealed off all the passes into Sikkim and cut the rope and bamboo bridges leading into Bhutan. The only escape route left open was the one the Dalai Lama took, over the rough trails to Towang on the Indian border...