Himalayan Times (1959)

Pear

June 28 1059

Editor:

S. C. JAIN

POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL

A number of Polytechnic
schools are to be opened in
West BengaL—The authorities
are looking/for the suitable
places for starting these schools.

Several time in past we
have pointed out about the
need of a polytechnio school at
Kalimpong. Due to its loca-
tion and ideal climatic condi-
tions thia place fs quite suit-
able for starting polytechnic
That will not only help the
people of Kalimpong and its
tsurrounding areas but ihe stu-
dents from Sikkim, Bhutan and
Eastern Nepal will also bo
greatly benefited.

This frontier town is facing
a dull business season due- to
deadlock in Ind-t-Tibet trade
and number of unemployed per-
son is mounting daily.

Considering tlieso factors,
■we hopo the authorities will
consider the case of Kalimpong.
That will help a great deal to
local people and p-teo assist in
solving .the unemployment " pro-
blem to\ certain extent.

SCHOOL FINAL RESULTS

While the poor I. A, results
of Kalimpong centre are still
being discussed, thu school final
results have given a big shock.
Who is responsible for the fai-
lure of such a large number
of students. It has been re-
ported that the students are
blaming *a ffumber of teachers
■ for not giving proper attention
to the school work. t They com-
plain that some of the teachers
having important .subjects to

teach in school and college are
mostly occupied in doing out-
bide work. If this is true it
is a Very serious affair, and
it is difficult to understand how
the school authorities are al-
lowing this. Ii it wise to keep
such teachers who cannot de-
vote their full time in schools,
for which they are paid ?

PEACEFUL SOLUTION
OF TIBETAN ISSUE

Mussoorie, June 20
Holding his first Press
oonferenco ever, the Ualai Lama
this morning made it more
than once clear that he, along
with his Ministers, constituted
the true Government of Tibet:
He said: "Wherever I am,
accompanied by my Ministers,
the people of Tib t. recognize
in us the Government of Tibet."

He described in detail the
atrocities which the Chinese
were committing against the
people of Tibet, and/ said that
they had gone to the extent
of even hurling abuse at the
Buddha himself, calling him a
"reactionary." He said he and
his Government had to leave
Lhasa hurriedly in order to
serve his people better.

He announced that he no
longer wished to abide by the
1951 agreement with the Chinese,
adding that it was an Jmposed
agreement. ,

Asked about the conditions
undor which settlement talks
could be conducted, he said

that these must be under a
mediator from a foreign coun-
try. Direct negotiations would
be of no ubs, because the
Chinese would never observe
the conditions.

The statement said that
the agreement of , 1951 was
between two independent and
sovereign States. But when
the Chinese armies violated the
territorial integrity of Tibet
(1950), it was a flagrant act
of aggression. The agreement
which followed _tJris invasion
was thrust n\.oa, the people of
Tibet. The consent of the
Tibetan Government was obtain-
ed under duress and at the
point of the bayonet. The
Tibetan seal put on the agree-
ment was not the real one,
but copied and fabricated in
Peking. _

The Dalai Lama said that
he acquiesced to save his peo-
ple from total destruction by
the Chinese, who bad no inten-
tion of carrying out the agree-
ment. They undermined even
his own statns and authority
and commehcod a reign of ter-
ror, which had fow parallels in
the history of the world. Des-
pite this, the Dalai Lama tried
to keep his people calm, but
when it became impossible for
him to servo his people any
longer from Lhasa, he left his
country.

The statement emphasized
that the Dalai Lama was nevf r
opposed to reforms. In fact,
the reforms proposed by him
and his Government were op-
posed by the Chinese.

As true Buddhists, he and
his Government were even now
prepared f r a peaceful and
amicable solution; provided the
rights and powers which Tibet
had enjoyed and exercised prior
to 1950 were guaranteed.