Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China has launched a virtual cold war against India." grumbled New Delhi's Hindustan Times. Nehru, of course, did not go that far. But he too complained last week that, having overrun Tibet while India kept quiet, the Reds have declared Indian currency illegal in Tibet and started a crackdown on Indian traders, even refused to recognize Indian jurisdiction over thousands of Indians resident in Tibet. ("These persons who have been residing in Tibet for long periods are, to all intents and purposes, Chinese nationals," said Peking.) The chance that the 12,396 Tibet refugees in India would...
Surprise Signs. A few of the Americans joined with other anti-Communists in Vienna to undercut the festival in a variety of ways. Free bus trips to view the barbed-wire border of Hungary were organized. Light planes circled over Vienna drawing streamers that said "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet." The brother of the Dalai Lama was invited to Vienna to talk with Iron Curtain delegates, and U.S. Songstress Ella Fitzgerald was brought in to sing at the other side of town at the same time as Red-banked Baritone Paul Robeson Sr. was Old Man Rivering at a festival rally...
...parade. They found nothing to cheer about until, near the end of the monotonous succession of national delegations, the ragged-rank bunch of 100 U.S. fellow travelers passed by-followed closely by six non-Communist Americans who, as they entered Heroes Square, broke out signs reading "Remember Hungary," "Remember Tibet" and "We're Against Soviet Colonialism." The crowd gave the half dozen a tremendous ovation before Austrian and Italian Communists swarmed in and knocked them out of line. All in all, it was unlikely that the Communists would soon try to stage another youth festival beyond their own fences...
...except by mass arrests, using guns and steel-tipped lathees. On four separate occasions, the police fired into crowds. They killed 15 people, slapped 10,000 Gandhi-style demonstrators in jail. Nor did the Communists help their cause when they openly applauded Red China's brutal invasion of Tibet...
After three months of seclusion in India's hill resort of Mussoorie, Tibet's self-exiled Dalai Lama, 24, broke his routine to witness a spectacle that strongly reminded him of his own people's bondage under the Red Chinese invaders. The attraction: The Ten Commandments, one of the late Cecil B. DeMille's last epics, his twice-filmed tale of Moses' struggle against Egyptian terror and tyranny. The movie won a rave notice from the God-King: "I liked it very much. I was greatly moved...