Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used in book titles, adventure is one of the world's most elastic words. It is as likely to title a book about a bus trip or stamp collecting as about Tibet. Books have even been written about adventures in thinking. But among any season's adventure books, year in & out, the majority tell about Africa and Asia. No exception, last month's crop was somewhat better than average...
Even unpainted, Tibetan females are among the world's ugliest. Yet Tibetans practice polygamy, polyandry and all forms of sexual perversion, and almost everybody (doctors estimate 99%) has a venereal disease. What modern improvements Lhasa has are the work of the Chinese and British. Tibet is not only a back door to China, but its religion is observed by 2,000,000 Mongols whom China very much wants to keep as buffering friends. Likewise Tibet is for England a buffer between the U. S. S. R. and India...
During and after the reign of the late, 13th Dalai Lama, China and England jockeyed for influence in Tibet. The Chinese established a radio station and a school (said the China Year Book: "The curriculum of the school consists principally of Chinese and commonsense"). The British put in another radio station (which worked better than the Chinese) and established a diplomatic mission, headed at present by a capable civil servant, Basil john Gould...
British and Chinese power in Lhasa seemed amicably divided last week, as the city prepared for the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama. In Tibet had arrived a chubby, button-eyed, four-and-a-half-year-old boy, nicknamed by reporters "the Kokonor Kid" (after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing...
British Agent Gould, meanwhile, had concentrated his attention on the man who will actually rule Tibet until the new Dalai Lama reaches 18 (if he reaches it-Dalai Lamas often die of aconite in their buttered tea). Tibet's Regent, shy, ugly, runty, jug-eared Thup Ten Jampel Yishey Gyantsen, lives in one of Lhasa's best palaces, raises European flowers in his garden. To him, Agent Gould gave many presents from India's Viceroy Lord Linlithgow-a silver tea service, rifles, revolvers, a gramophone, a thermos flask, a signed photograph. Likewise, Agent Gould and his staff...