Red China, with the weak theocratic government of Tibet under its thumb, now controls all the major passes through the towering Himalayas into India and Nepal. Travelers back in India from Tibet last week said that well-armed Chinese troops along the 2,000-mile frontier are entrenched in market towns, have replaced Indian rupees with Chinese currency, are interfering with traders and religious pilgrims, who for centuries have crossed and recrossed the Indo-Tibetan border without hindrance.
Although the worried Indian army is strengthening its own frontier posts, Prime Minister Nehru is determined not to be worried by...
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