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...Tibetan situation. Nehru sounds more and more like a "Western" diplomat rather than a "neutralist," and American attitudes toward India warm as Indian outrage over Tibet grows. Last week The Times of India was filled with enough good feeling to advocate a summit meeting between Nehru and Mohammed Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan, praising the new Pakistani government as "the one with which we can do business. Its leaders have on more than one occasion made conciliatory references to India and recognize the danger and futility of continued emnity with this country." And Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Manzur Qadir, earlier...
...Pakistani-owned Sabre jets downed an Indian reconaissance plane, an incident which did much to arouse Indian ill-will. Disputes over division of the Indus Basin and control of Kashmir have yet to be settled and there still exists distrust among Indian politicians of the military dictatorship of Ayub Khan's government, its absence of parties, elections, and an independent judiciary...
...Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, a big chunk of the audience at a movie would rise in days past and bow toward the screen whenever Rita Hayworth appeared in a picture. Thus did Nairobi's Moslems pay their respects to the wife of Prince Aly Khan, whose father ruled their Ismaili sect. Asians in Africa are about 800,000 strong. While the white rulers have begrudgingly tolerated Africa's Asians, the blacks have become increasingly resentful of them. For a continent-wide report on the increasing number and growing problems of Asians in Africa, see FOREIGN NEWS. Between...
Today, there are 800,000 Asians in Africa south of the Sahara-Hindus (the majority), Sikhs, Ismaili and Shia Moslems, Parsees and Christians from Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants...
...Three Precious Jewels of Tibetan Buddhism: the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Community. Power lay with the contending monks and noblemen. The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect. This was made official in 1557 when a Mongol khan gave the seal of rulership to the leading Yellow Hat monk and named him Dalai (Ocean of Wisdom) Lama. The fifth Dalai Lama is famous for building the vast Potala. He also felt the need to honor his favorite teacher by naming him the Panchen (Teacher) Lama...