Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 100,000 wild Tibetan nomads, known as the Goloks, who fight with swords and old muzzle-loader muskets, have declared war on the Chinese Reds in Tibet...
Relations with China. In 1950, on hearing that the Chinese Communists had invaded Tibet, the Dalai Lama's advisers placed two balls of kneaded tsamba in a golden bowl of water, one to indicate that the Dalai Lama should leave Lhasa, the other that he should not. When the answer turned out to be yes, they set out cups of buttered tea for good luck, made their way over the mountain passes in freezing (24° below zero) weather to a monastery only ten miles from the Indian border. When they returned to Lhasa seven months later, the Dalai...
...weeks made him aware of the outside world. Since then, though Radio Peking has on occasion quoted the Dalai Lama in dutiful denunciation of the American imperialists, he has in fact shown a captive's ability subtly to defy authority. The old saying is still true: "To hold Tibet firmly, the conqueror must win the Potala's top floor...
...DELHI, India, April 5--Prime Minister Nehru declared today India is still guided by her treaty of coexistence with Red China despite the fact this nation is "obviously interested and concerned about what happens" in Tibet...
...cannot ignore it--Tibet--or look away," Nehru told a news conference...