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...China to Communize Tibet...
Nevertheless, for all his tergiversations, Nehru had taken, for Nehru, his own giant step. For the first time, he actually talked back to the Chinese Communists. When Peking declared that any discussion of the Tibet rebellion in the Indian Parliament would be "impolite and improper," Nehru hotly retorted: "It is open to this House, this Parliament, to discuss any matter it chooses." He even expressed public doubt as to the authenticity of the "rather surprising letters" the Dalai Lama was supposed to have written. "I should like to have a little greater confirmation about them," he said, "about what they...
...most striking change in India was not in the leader but in the led. Outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, members of a right-wing Hindu party demonstrated against the "atrocities" in Tibet. In Parliament, cries of "Shame! Shame!" greeted the Indian Communist Party when it offered its congratulations to Peking for "leading the people of Tibet to prosperity and equality." "Why," asked the Indian Express of Nehru, "this strange tenderness for Communist feelings as contrasted with the disregard for the sensitivities of the democracies?" Said the Hindustan Times: "Let us hold our heads low. A small country...
...Tibet's fate were not reminder enough of the penalties of flouting authority in the Communist world, word leaked from Budapest of a new mass trial of workers from Csepel Island, the industrial area that held out longest against the Russians in the 1956 revolt. The score of terror: ten death sentences, 25 prison terms ranging from two years to life...
...Chinese Communist government notified New Zealand Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest, that owing to unexplained "inadequate conditions,'' he would not be allowed back in Tibet for another go at the great peak...