Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York-born, Harvard-educated Don Connery, 33, had traveled through more of India than most Indian journalists. He had tramped the dusty roads of Bombay state with Land Reformer Vinoba Bhave, hunted rhino in Nepal, lunched with the Wali of Swat, prowled the lower depths of teeming Calcutta, saw Tibet's Dalai Lama soon after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed footsteps with Nehru...
Nepal provides a buffer along 400 miles of the high Himalayan terrain between India and Chinese-occupied Tibet. Chinese incursions have come from Tibet where India and Tibet meet west of Nepal, and Chinese forces have been reported on the Tibet-Nepal border...
...would obviously find his people behind him. In fact, some were well ahead of him. Last week a crowd of 300 university students paraded to Nehru's home demanding the dismissal of unpopular Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon because of his "brazenfaced defense of Chinese aggression in Tibet." Menon, who has been in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly, flew home at week's end to give his counsel to Nehru...
...conference took place just 200 miles from Bandung, where in 1955 newly liberated Afro-Asian nations, full of hostility toward their former rulers, joined in opposition to all colonialism. Red China was there too. Since then Red China has lost friends over Tibet, the older Western nations have won increased understanding of their own motives because they have learned to understand the new nation better, and the new nations themselves have gained in political maturity. The harsh spirit of Bandung was hardly detectable among the delegates who in Jogjakarta last week enthusiastically voted to continue the Colombo Plan until...
Seeking Trouble? What was Red China up to? Western specialists in Hong Kong had originally conjectured the continuing Chinese difficulties in Tibet explained its action. The rebellion could not be crushed until Tibetan hope for outside help was extinguished. Ergo, India, which had given asylum to the Dalai Lama and to 13,000 Tibetan refugees, must be shown up as unwilling or unable to help...