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...argued that the Communists' censorship of all but approved foreign authors was a fair indication of their intellectual freedom, and the suppression of Tibet typified China's disregard for agreements and readiness to settle issues by force...
Nehru's visit left the Communists still in the saddle and their opponents, including his own Congress Party, high and dry. As has happened so often in the past, from Korea to Hungary, from the councils of the United Nations to his temporizing about Tibet, Nehru's indecisive efforts at compromise and peacemaking left his supporters disappointed and dissatisfied...
...speeches, Narayan urged Nehru and other top government leaders to quit office and mingle with the masses. He fiercely attacked Nehru's endless temporizing with the Communists, supported the direct-action groups in Kerala, and demanded that India do something about Red China's aggression in Tibet. Last week he called on the exiled Dalai Lama, and in the face of Nehru's indifference, urged the envoys of 14 Afro-Asian countries to unite in protest against Red China's blood actions in Tibet...
Since 1956, he said, more than 65,000 of his people had died fighting the Chinese. The Reds were not only trying to settle 5,000,000 Chinese in Tibet, nearly double the native population; they were even trying to declare "the Lord Buddha a reactionary element." Today, said the Dalai Lama, there are only three classes of Tibetans: those deported, those in prison, and those doing forced labor...
...Dalai Lama had no intention of "leaving the nation's valiant defenders unaided . . . Wherever I am with my ministers, the people of Tibet will recognize in us the government of Tibet." He would carry his cause to all parts of the world, until Tibet gets back the freedom it enjoyed before the agreement of 1951. Though studiously polite about his host, the Dalai Lama gently hinted that he was getting a bit impatient with Prime Minister Nehru's obsession with getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give...