A 1959 view of the race between India and China
Re-organizing some drawers this morning I was intrigued, and very distracted from my cleaning, to find a newspaper page under the drawer lining from the (London) Times on May 5, 1959.Page 10 (the page I have) is full of the new rift between India and China. The crushing of the Tibetan uprising had just happened, the Dalai Lama had just fled to India and Mr Nehru was deploring the first time peace had been broken on the India - China border in 2000 years.But the piece I found most fascinating [...]