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EDITORIAL: China Is Angry with India Dalai Lama-A Headache B,Y S Price 25 N aye Paise Incorpo AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC AND PuBLIC AFFAIRS WE STAND FOR FREE ECONOl\IY AND LIBERTARIAN DEMOCRACY MAKE ENGLISH THE LINGUA FRANCA OF INDIA IN TIDS ISSUE May 15. 1959 Vel\ II No .• ~ PAGE rAGE EDITORIAL: China Is Angry with India Dalai Lama-A Headache b,Y S. Ramanathan 12 From Lhassa to De_lhi b}} Anihon,Y Ellenjimittam 13 AFTICLES The Impact of the Plan on the Common Man .•• 14 Humpty-Dumpty Nehru's Fall b}} M. N. Tholal 4 Congress Needs a New Leadership Limits of State Action b}} M.A. Venkata Rao . · · 6 b:y K. Kumar Sekhar 20 That Silly Question b}} H. V. Kamalh 9 Book Reviews 21 Diamat b.:y Philip Spratt 21 The Free Will and the Market Place b:y Franlr Chadarov 10 Natural Economic Order b:y Silvio Gesell EDITORIAL Also, he should have known what value to set on CHINA IS ANGRY WITH INDIA OVER TIBET Chou En-lai's assurance to him that he would respect rr HE statements of the Prime Minister about the Tibetan autonomy and would let the Dalai Lama Sino-Tibetan conflict and the clear policy of retain his traditional position of national and spiritual friendship with China, desire for the autonomy of leadership. Tibet as a buffer state between her and India and There is one defect in the policy statements of the sympathy with the sufferings of the Tibetan people Prime Minister, and that is the absence of a clear under the reforming zeal of the Reds have been res­ charge against the Chinese that they had broken the trained and tactful. They have put first things first and au~nomy clause of the Sino-Tibetan treaty of 1951. have expressed the sentiments· of the Indian people As Jai Prakash Narain puts it, we should have no with perfect clarity and dignity. As an American hesitation in calling a spade a spade. Friendship paper put it, they were 'literate and civilised'. should be no bar to truth and sincerity. In glaring contrast to Nehru's tone, spokesmen of SINO-TIBETAN :AGREEMENT OF 1951 the Chinese Government, officialdom and Party have It is worthwhile to place on record that part of the gone all out in unrestrained and almost brutal con­ Sino-Tibetan Agreement which includes the autonomy demnation of India's sympathy for the Tibetans. Chou clause without ambiguity. En-lai himself set the example by asking Nehru in his !>peech, at the Chinese National Conference: "with l. That Tibet would enjoy regional autonomy and whom he sympathised-the reactionary upper strata that the Chinese Central Government would not in­ aided by foreign imperialists or with the poor Tibetans terfere with its political institutions and internal ad­ who were oppressed by them so long?" ministration. This is the familiar communist distinction between 2. and 3 refer to Chinese responsibility for foreign the upper class of "exploiters" and the lower class of relations and the stationing of troops in Tibet. .. have-nots" in every nation. Communists have com­ 4. That the Chinese Central Government would !'litted themselves to liberating the poor of every nation recognise and maintain that Dalai Lama•s position: m the world, in due course, from their own upper that the Panchen Lama would be allowed to return dass! They do not believe in the validity and sanctity of nationalism binding the classes together in homo­ geneous bonds of fellow-feeling. ATTENTION So when Chinese armies marched on Tibet, Nehru •seholal'ships p-anted to Post-rraduate students Ia asked in dismay from whom they proposed to libe­ -Economir:s, who are able to undertake reserch iD Free rate the Tibetans? Economy from LibertariaD poi.Dt of view. AppJ7 : . He should have known communist doctrine by that SeeretaQ'. R- L Foundatioa.. Ar7a BhUVa.Jlo Saadlau.n& ttme and need not have~ dismayed and puz;;Jed. Road. Bomba7 L .. to the part o! !ibet formerly ruled by his predecessors 'was surprised that so old and civilised a nation as. and that relig1ous_ freedom '~~\l,ld be protected. · . ,~China s~ould use such vulgar abuse. One paper said 5. That the T1betan Reg10il!\_l Government would- 1 that· Chma was now strong and would not tolerate voluntarily ·carry out reform witHQut interference from the hogs who thrust their snouts into their country's. the Central Government and thaP.ehe 'latter· should .. affait16.! ~ssis.t t_he Tibetan ~ople in their political. erooorriic. It is understood that the recent toning down of the mdustnal, commerc1al, cultural and educatiOnal deve- harshness in Pravda and other Russian papers is due~ lopment. to the representatiofi! made in Moscow by our Ambas- Perhaps it is tfiis clause under which the Chinese sador. justify their interference under the name of reform. It remains to be seen how lono the Chinese will~ The reforms introduced were typically communist keep up this massive barrage of vituoeration and· and left but little autonomy to the Tibetan authoriies wa.rning. This has _become a major aspect of the re­ and common people. latiOns between India and China and has shown how· frail and unreliable the famed Panchsheel has been. The planting of Jakhs of Chinese settlers in the midst of the Tibetans on their best lands, the robbery. India is now caught on the horns of a dilem- of monasteries under the name of loans, the sending ma whether to continue friendly relations in trust or of workers to distant places for labour on military to seek a closer aliRnment with the Western Powers· establishments and roads, the incitement of the lower Nf!W Delhi is vacillating. ' classes against the lamas and official hierarchy, above But it should be remembered that India's interest all the notorious land reforms which means robbing in Tibet is more political than cultural, in spite of· Peter to pay Paul. These are not reforms that can Nehru's statement. be forced on an unwilling people.· They are reforms India's interest stems for the fact of security Old that destroy the entire social system and ways of life Tibet was an unarmed nation and its buffer status: of the people. No wonder the Tibetans rebelled. The prevented Russia and China from penetrating its ter­ re'6e11ion began some three years ago. India was ritory and building military installations there. This adopting a hush hush policy and discouraged journal- was ~ factor for peace and security for India. But· ists from sending reports about the clashes in Tibet. today this position has changed. China has built mili- INDIA'S INTEREST IN TIBET tary roads and aerodromes. Her planes are within an· The Prime Minister has recently been stressing that hour's flying dis.tance from Delhi-and the other cities India's interest in Tibet and its Dalai Lama is prima­ of the Gangetic Valley. This necessitates vast cxpen-· rily cultural and sentimental and not political. diture on our part on similar military roads and instal­ This in an indication that he has resolved to wash lations on our side· of the border and the stationing his hands of the tangle and sacrifice Tibet for the mkt! of troops near the various pass.es in the Himalavas. of mollifying China's wounded sensibility. For the first time in history, India has lost her Hima- Nehru himself has expressed surprise at the tough layan shield. · and brutal nature of the attack made bv newspapers The expansionist nature of China so strikingiy re­ and officials and politicians on him and India. He vealed in this Tibetan suppression is a warning that· we rely on mere Panchasheela at our peril. We netd not repudiate it in public in so many wordv but we· Tlu~. llltlian LiiJertarian should keep our powder dry and look around for sup­ Independent Journal of Free Economy porters in case of conflict. This is but the sheerest' and P.ublic Affairs prudence. Edited by Miss KUSUM LoTWALA Pak Diplomacy in Relation to Tii>etan Troubl~ Published on the 1st and 15th of Each Month Pakistani leaders seem to hope for a windfall fr'Jm· Single Copy 25 Naye Paise the suffering of India consequent on the Tibetan· Subscription Rates : trouble. · Annual Rs. 6; Half Yearly Rs. 3 Mr. Qadir, the Foreign Minister of Pakistan had let ADVERTISEMENTS RATES out on his way from a SEATO meeting that the Tibetan Full Page Rs, 100; Half Page Rs. 50; Quarter Page imbroglio might lead to a change of policy on the Rs. 25. part of India. He meant that India might Jean towards· One-eighth Page Rs. 15 One full column of a Page Rs. 50. the West and so come closer to Pakistan. BACK COVER .. .. .. .. .. .. Rs. 150 The hopes of the Pakistanis seem to be that India SECOND COVER .. .. .. .. .. .. Rs. 125 might be persuaded to yield to them in the matter of THIRD COVER .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 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