Himalayan Times (1959)

May 10, 1869 $l.naia««,u (fi.no

TIBET CANNOT BE EVEN HALF-FREE

Peking Official Daily's Declaration

Hongkong, May 6

The official journal
of the Chinese Commu-
nist Party, the Peking
People's Daily, today
ruled out the possibility
that Tibet would ba given
'any status of semi-
independeuoe."

Such a status, it
■aid in a lengthy article
quoted by the New China
.<ews Agency, "would be
detrimental to the Tibe
tan people, to the Chinese
people, to the Indian
people, to Sino Indian
friendship and to Asian
peace."

Tibet was definitely
no protectorate, nor a
buffer-state, but an auto-
nomous region under lull
Chinese sovereignty.

The article regretted
that the "argument" bet-
ween China and Mr. Nehru
had been "a bit sharp,''
''but hoped it would in
substance help relations
between the two countries.
We will certainly not
forget our common inte-
rests and fall into the
trap of our common
enemy."

The article said the
rebellion bad in the main
been quelled, and Tibet
was now faoing a "peace-

ful revolution." After
giving sooial and political
background to the rebel-
lion and quoting Mr.
Nehru's parliamentary
statement on Tibet last
month the article attac-
ked those who sympa-
thized with the libetan
rebels. It said Mr Nehru
had been "pushed" by
the West into an impor-
tant role in their 'to-
called sympatby-with-Ti-
bet movement."

Mr. Nehru had made
a "most deplorable error"
in denying that a hand-
ful of reactionaries were
responsible for the rebel-
lion. In fact, without the
Khamba tribesmen who
formed a third of the
rebels, only a little over
one per cent of Tibet's
population were involved,
the artiole claimed

Although there wnre
obvious contrad otiona in
Mr Nehru's thinking,
there was no nerd to
discuss them ' Both our
households have plenty
to do .... Why should
either of us poke his nose
into the other s business?"
it asked

' The article tai.l that
although some of his re-

Kiv.

marks abcut iibet did
not conform to the five
principles of peaceful co-
existence. "Mr. Nehru is
different from many per-
sons who obviously Bear
ill will towards China. He
disagrees somewhat with
us on the Tibet question,
but in general he advo-
cates Sino Indian friend-
ship. Of this we have
no doubts whatever.

The article said Mr.
Nehru's statements about
'1 ibet ''conform with rea-
lity in the sense that the
Indian Government has
no desire to annex Tibet
or to send its armed for-
oss to intervene in Tibe.
tan affairs."

1 MILLION JOBELESS IN
WEST BENGAL
(Continued from page 3)
on ways to provide more
avenues of employment
in this area. He wanted
closed cooperation bet-
ween the employment ex-
changes and the private
seotor. .

Mr. D. N. Ghosh,
Director, National Em-
ployment Service, West
Bengal, said that approxi-
mately 8,000 unemployeds
had registered their names
at Oarjeeling and about
7.000 at Siligurt.

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