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...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...
...Lhasa's golden-roofed lamaseries, the Buddhist theocrats who have ruled Tibet's 3,000,000 people spun their prayerwheels, consulted ancient oracles, conferred. For the non-Communist world, the sole source of news from the capital was the radio transmitter of the Indian agent stationed there. For seven days it was silent, and the rumor rose that a pro-appeasement lamasery revolution had unseated the young (16) Dalai Lama. Then the wireless spoke again. "Extreme worry," it reported, gripped the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama and his Regent, Takta Rimpoche, must soon choose one of three courses: flight...
Like a man wronged by a trusted friend, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru last week released the texts of a sad little three-note exchange with Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung on the subject of Tibet...
...reply, in brusque and insulting language, declared Tibet an integral part of China and alleged India's interest was foreign-inspired. Warned Mao: "No foreign interference will be tolerated." The Indian Prime Minister expressed "amazement" at China's allegations. "At no time," Nehru said in reply, "has any foreign influence been brought to bear upon India in regard to Tibet." The Red attack against a "peaceful people," said Nehru in his best progressive school manner, had "greatly added to the tensions of the world and to the drift towards general...
...goodness sake, Manley," said Victor Milgrim in the sort of hearty executive bass, vibrant with command and ownership, in which big Hollywood producers are supposed to address their writers and prize great Danes. "I'm not asking you to go to Tibet." All Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical...