CONQUEST OF TIBET

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28906, 28 May 1959, Page 13

CONQUEST OF TIBET

“China Lost More Than Gained”

(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON. May 27 China might have lost more than she gained in Tibet if Mr Nehru’s uncompromising attitude led to the strengthening of . the anticommunist feeling in Asia, says a special correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” writing from New Delhi.

China, he adds, by her seizure of Tibet, had succeeded m extending her empire, but the cost of conquest might eventually prove to be exorbitant. This was one encouraging fact which had emerged from the Tibetan catastrophe, for Asia—including, most important of all, India—had at last seen the latent brutalities of communism openly unleashed in the quest for power. Undisguised suppression of the Tibetans was the last resort for the Chinese. The fact that they were forced to adopt such a method is a bitter failure for the Communist world and it is an action which in the long run will probably have even greater international effects than Russia’s rape of Hungary, the correspondent says.

With India alive to China’s genuine objective, which is the ancient one of territorial extension, the rest of the East may become increasingly anti-Communist. China has already recognised this danger and that is why the unprecedented campaign of vilification from Peking was begun against the Indian Government