Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted in the main doorway, and out stepped the smiling Dalai Lama for his first meeting with Nehru since the God-King of Tibet fled the Red Chinese reconquest of his homeland (TIME, April 13). "How are you?" asked Nehru. Answered the Dalai Lama in his best English: "I am quite nice...
...travelers were ones that Nehru was in no mood to follow himself against aggressive Red China. Speaking about India's relations with Peking, Nehru soft-pedaled all thought of risk, hardship and adventure. It was almost as if he were setting out to prove that the revolt in Tibet-"the treacherous armed rebellion," in Peking's words-was nothing to get excited about...
...alert villages ahead of them to prepare horses, yaks, porters and guides, the Dalai Lama depended on 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...
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...
...arrival at Foothills, the Dalai Lama demolished this feeble Red legend. At the tea planters' town of Tezpur, he stated "categorically," in the third-person style expected of a god, that he left Lhasa and Tibet and came to India "of his own will and not under duress," and said that his "quite arduous" escape was only possible "due to the loyalty and affectionate support of his Tibetan people." In unemotional language (he was pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks...