Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Reds toiled last week across Tibet's forbidding, wind-scoured glacial plateau, their press & radio for the first time reported how they had prepared the blow...
...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...
...Communist regime, urged a seat for it in the U.N., pictured its leaders as popular reformers, served them as a channel to the skeptical non-Communist world. He thought he had Mao Tse-tung's promise that the Tibetan issue would be settled amicably. He expected that Tibet could keep its traditional autonomy under nominal Chinese sovereignty...
Nehru even encouraged negotiations between the Tibetans and the Red masters of China. Last April a seven-man delegation, headed by Finance Minister Tsepon Shakabpa, made the arduous trip to New Delhi from Lhasa, the remote, lamasery-studded capital of Tibet. They waited five months for the arrival of General Yuan Chung-hsien, the new Chinese Communist Ambassador to India. When he arrived, the Red envoy suggested the Tibetans go on to Peking. It was so arranged. The delegation, like Nehru, had its dreams; Tibetan Minister Shakabpa scornfully brushed off talk of an impending attack on his country...
...Element of Fear." In Kashmir over the weekend, Nehru still clung to his confusion. He attributed Red China's attitude toward Tibet to an "element of fear" in Peking. He also saw the Peking regime as "the strongest government China has ever had in all her history ... [a] basic fact [that] cannot be ignored in formulation of policies by nations...