Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hamstrung by the arrest of their chiefs and also by the defection of the Praja-Socialists, who used to join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
...Sikkim and Bhutan, both of them Indian protectorates, and Ladakh, the eastern portion of India's Kashmir. Indians have long complained of "cartographic aggression" by China in mapping these areas as parts of China. At a mass meeting in Lhasa last month, China's top warlord in Tibet, General Chang Kuo-hua. went further. "Bhutanese, Sikkimese and Ladakhis form a united family in Tibet." said he. "They have always been subject to Tibet and to the great motherland of China. They must once again be united and taught the Communist doctrine." The border countries are "like lice...
...McMahon Frontier. The classic Chinese-Indian borders were set in 1914 at a meeting in Simla of British, Chinese and Tibetan representatives, presided over by Sir Henry McMahon. That meeting gave China nominal suzerainty over inner Tibet but not the right to interfere with its internal administration, and delineated a frontier between India and Tibet, following the spur of the Himalayas through wild and remote country. Declared Nehru last week: "So far as we are concerned the McMahon line is the firm frontier, firm by treaty, firm by right, firm by usage and firm by geography." Therefore he could...
...called the Peking Arts and Crafts Co., which commands high prices for bronzes and porcelain slipped out to selected dealers in Hong Kong and Europe. Included last week in the latest selection of mainland art wares showing up in Hong Kong shops was a sizable portion of loot from Tibet. For $50 and up, customers could choose from dozens of gilded bronze temple statues of Buddha, silver Tibetan chalices and ornately carved coral bracelets. Many were the kind of things Tibetans use in daily life and worship, and obviously had not been willingly surrendered...
Manila announced that Tibet's Dalai Lama, in Indian haven after escaping the Red Chinese invaders of his land, had won this year's Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership, a salute for the god-king's role in Tibet's "gallant struggle...