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...China last year massed 60,000 troops in Tibet and pointed their spearheads across the Himalayan passes toward India; it started building military roads right up to India's frontier; it laid down air bases within easy range of New Delhi and the teeming Ganges plain; it sent armed reconnaissance squads to undermine India's shaky border states-Nepal. Bhutan and Sikkim; it printed borderland maps that showed Indian districts as part of Red China. Nehru's reaction to all this (and to Red China's open call for "Asian unity" under Red China...
Last week after four months silence, Nehru's government happily announced that at last it had won a "trade pact" with Red China. The terms: India to withdraw a tiny garrison it has maintained in Tibet for years to protect Indian merchants and pilgrims; India to let Red China set up "trade missions" (with diplomatic immunity) inside India at New Delhi, Calcutta, Kalimpong; Indians to seek entry into Tibet only along six specified passes and not to seek entry at all into the "closed territory" of Sinkiang. India also for the first time recognized Tibet as an integral part...
...other sources, such as Indonesia, is not even buying all it might under the control quota (limited to Russia's estimated civilian needs), and the new gesture would help Malaya's sagging rubber trade. Sale of rubber is still banned to Communist China, Hong Kong, Macao and Tibet. But there will be nothing to prevent Malayan rubber from finding its way from, say, Vladivostok via a Manchurian tire factory to a Chinese truck outside Dienbienphu...
...This World (Theodore R. Kupferman) is compiled from Technicolor footage shot by Lowell Thomas Sr. and Jr. on the much-publicized trip the commentator and his son took to Tibet in 1949. It is a cinematic counterpart of the long evening with a photograph album. The pictures are often amateurishly taken, the continuity is rakishly discontinuous, and the narration is written and read like a fifth-grade paper on How I Spent My Summer Vacation...
What is left? A few hundred frames of calm beauty, a quiet memory of a sort of negative Eden, the last backward look into a primitive demi-paradise lost (little more than a year after these pictures were taken, Chinese Communist armies moved into Tibet). The camera sees the herds of yak grazing below icy peaks in meadows of wild orchids, and finds the barley harvests lying like some sort of killed light in the thin blue air. Wild flowers splurge -in summer the whole Himalaya seems a giant's rock garden. Down from the mountains to the high...