793B.00/8–1651: Telegram
The Consul General at Calcutta (Wilson) to the Secretary of State
121. ReDeptel 333, August 9 to New Delhi.1 We learned … Aug 14 that [name deleted] … was about to leave for Lhasa. As he offered take msg to Dalai Lama it was decided after consulting Emb give him msg contained Deptel 295 Aug 4 as amended Embtel 507 Aug 6.2
Yesterday Linn and I handed [name deleted] unsigned msg on blank paper with no watermark, containing no ref US. Msg with translation were sealed in blank envelope which [name deleted] promised hand Dalai Lama personally. He expects reach Lhasa in about twenty days.
[Name deleted] gave us lengthy account experiences in Chi of Tibet del . . . . This account, being transmitted by desp, fully bears out statements he made Taktser (Contel 13 July 3) and info recd from Shakabpa (Condesp 8 July 9)3 as to Tibs having been forced sign agreement.
[Name deleted] also confirmed info previously recd (Contels 114 and 117, Aug 134 and Embtel 613 Aug 14 to Dept) that Tib Govt intends negotiate in Lhasa with Chi del and that there are “great hopes” Dalai Lama may still come to India and denounce agreement, also that no word has been received from GOI re asylum.
Sent Dept 121; rptd info Delhi 114.
- See footnote 2, p. 1777.↩
- See footnote 1, p. 1776.↩
- Despatch 8 from Calcutta, not printed, reported Shakabpa’s account of what he had learned from the Tibetan Delegates about their experiences in Peking (793B.00/7–951).↩
- Telegram 117 from Calcutta, not printed, conveyed a report that the Tibetan Government planned to negotiate in Lhasa with the Chinese Delegation, that the Dalai Lama might leave, if the Chinese insisted on bringing more troops to Tibet, and that no word had been received from the Indian Government concerning asylum for the Dalai Lama (793B.00/8–1351).↩