12. The Very Roof of the World

0.   Patricia Cronin Marcello, The Dalai Lama: A Biography (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 2003), 14–20; Richard Worth, Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyasto) (New York: Chelsea House, 2004), 4–7; Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York: Grove Press, 2006); Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World: Across the Himalayas to Forbidden Tibet (New York: The Greystone Press, 1950, Kindle edition); Rosemary Jones Tung, A Portrait of Lost Tibet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), 89; Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper, Tibet: An Unfinished Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, Kindle edition); Peter Bishop, “Not Only a Shangri-la: Images of Tibet in Western Literature,” in Thierry Dodin and Heinz Rather, eds., Imagining Tibet: Perceptions, Projections, and Fantasies, (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2001), 208–209; Orville Schell, Virtual Tibet (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000), 241–248; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, February 11, 1950; interview with Roger Croston, October 11, 2015.

0.   Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; John Kenneth Knaus, Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan Struggle for Survival (New York: Public Affairs, 1999), 34, 42–45; Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper, Tibet: An Unfinished Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, Kindle edition); Tsepon W. D. Shakabpa, Tibet: A Political History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 298; George N. Patterson, Requiem for Tibet (London: Aurum Press, 1990), 98; interview with Roger Croston, October 11, 2015; Schell, Virtual Tibet, 264–265.

0.   Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, February 11, 1950, February 18, 1950; Lowell Thomas Jr., Tibet journal; Lowell Thomas Jr. radio broadcast, “This time from Tibet.…” The song “Mule Train” was a hit in the 1940s for Frankie Lane and Bing Crosby, then sung by Gene Autry in a movie of the same name.

0.   Schell, Virtual Tibet, 18–22; Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, February 11, 18, March 4, 1950, February 18, 1950; Lowell Thomas Jr., Tibet journal; from the movie Out of This World, a travelogue by Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr., presented by Theodore R. Kupferman, 1954.

0.   Lowell Thomas Jr. in his book states that “we halted for the night at a village seven miles from Lhasa, impatient as we were to reach our destination after toiling for twenty-three days over the rugged Himalayas”; so they actually entered Lhasa on the 24th day. This jibes with my calculation: They left Gangtok on August 5 and arrived in Lhasa on August 29, three days before the blessing by the Dalai Lama, which took place the day before Lowell Jr.’s journal entry dated September 2. Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, February 18, 1950; Lowell Thomas Jr., Tibet journal.

0.   Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, March 4, 1950; Lowell Thomas Jr., Tibet journal; the movie Out of This World, a travelogue by Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr., presented by Theodore R. Kupferman, 1954; “Lowell Thomas Becomes First Person in History to Speak to Outside World From Lhasa, Tibet,” CBS News press release, October 7, 1949; Marcello, The Dalai Lama: A Biography, 52; interview with the Dalai Lama by Anne Thomas Donaghy and David Wright, October 31, 2016.

0.   “Reds See West Plot on Tibet,” Wilkes-Barre Record, November 30, 1949 (this is an Associated Press story, which appeared in newspapers around the country); New Times did indeed connect “a certain Lowell Thomas” with what it called “American imperialist interference in Tibetan affairs”; T. Yershov, “Imperialist Intrigue in Tibet,” New Times, number 49, November 30, 1949. Lowell Thomas, So Long Until Tomorrow: From Quaker Hill to Kathmandu (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1977), 142; Lowell Thomas Jr., Tibet journal; Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, March 4, 1950; Lowell Thomas, Tibet broadcast, #5; Knaus, Orphans of the Cold War, 42–43; Alastair Lamb, Tibet, China & India, 1914–1950: A History of Imperial Diplomacy (Hertingfordbury: Roxford Books, 1989), 516; Halper and Halper, Tibet: An Unfinished Story, 75–77; A. Tom Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet, revised edition (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015), 103–105, 165; Thomas Laird, Into Tibet: The CIAs First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Tibet (New York: Grove Press, 2002).

0.   Lowell Thomas Jr., Tibet journal; Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, March 18, 1950; “Lowell Thomas Hurt So Badly in Tibet He Cannot Be Moved,” Daily Boston Globe, September 24, 1949; Lowell Thomas, “High Adventure”; Robert Trumbull, “Tibet Fears Told by Thomas,” New York Times, October 10, 1949.

0.   Patterson, Requiem for Tibet, 98; Knaus, Orphans of the Cold War, 43; Richard H. Rovere, “Letter from Washington,” New Yorker, November 2, 1950; Lowell Thomas Jr., Out of This World; Lowell Thomas with Lowell Thomas Jr., “Out of This World: Journey to Lhasa,” Collier’s, March 18, 1950; Lezlee Brown Halper and Stefan Halper, Tibet: An Unfinished Story (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, Kindle edition); Laird, Into Tibet: The CIAs First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Tibet.

0.   Lowell Thomas broadcast, July 7, 1950; conversation with Anne Thomas Doughty, 2015.