Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This World (Theodore R. Kupferman) is compiled from Technicolor footage shot by Lowell Thomas Sr. and Jr. on the much-publicized trip the commentator and his son took to Tibet in 1949. It is a cinematic counterpart of the long evening with a photograph album. The pictures are often amateurishly taken, the continuity is rakishly discontinuous, and the narration is written and read like a fifth-grade paper on How I Spent My Summer Vacation...
...From Tibet came an intriguing snapshot of the Dalai Lama, who in March 1951, when he was 16, was photographed in a southern Tibetan monastery. He had fled there to escape the Red Chinese hordes advancing on Lhasa, capital of his theocracy, to which he returned later that year. In the picture, the Dalai's Lord Chamberlain shows him a golden urn said to contain the ashes of Buddha's two chief disciples...
...railways could be built in Sinkiang, Manchuria, Tibet and Mongolia, and if all these railways could be linked into one system," said Sun Yat-sen long ago, "then China's people would have cheap food to eat." Red China and the Soviet Union are now building Sun Yat-sen's railroads, with a notably different purpose. They mean, by 1957, to bring Communist power by rail into Asia's heartland, to forge new steel bands across the world's greatest continent and to consolidate their grand alliance...
...Socialist asked Nehru point-blank if it was not true that Red China was massing troops in Tibet (TIME. Nov. 23). He prodded Nehru: "Would not the deliberate and planned infiltration of our frontiers compel us to look at the situation with greater objectivity...
...true that Red China was building airfields in Tibet? "No doubt," replied Nehru smoothly. "The only way of getting across Tibet is by air." Nehru admitted that borderland Nepal was "in a somewhat fluid state-not a very satisfactory state"; he could not say, precisely, "how many persons" had crossed the Nepalese frontier from Red China. "But if there is any conception that there are preparations being made in Tibet for some kind of invasion of India, I think that is a complete mistake ... In the final analysis, if it takes place, we will resist it-so why get afraid...