1:32:01
I've only felt that way
one other time.
1:32:04
When?
1:32:10
In your presence, Ku-Dun.
1:32:15
The Chinese have already secured
much of the northern border regions.
1:32:19
They have ransacked a village,
destroyed the monasteries...
1:32:22
burnt scriptures
and defaced holy relics.
1:32:25
We've been told they've
even killed some monks--
1:32:27
- Which vill age?
- Takster in Amdo.
1:32:30
It's where His Holiness was born.
1:32:43
Go ahead.
1:32:47
When you were defense minister
to the previous Dalai Lama...
1:32:50
then you wanted to
reorganlze the army.
1:32:52
Can you do it now?
1:32:54
The People's Liberation Army
is one million troops strong.
1:32:59
We have 8,000 men
with 50 pieces of artillery...
1:33:02
and a few hundred mortars
and machine guns.
1:33:05
The task is hopeless.
1:33:06
Then you refuse
the appointment, do you?
1:33:11
No. I accept it with honor.
1:33:15
You two gentlemen know about wars.
1:33:17
What type of weapon
do you recommend?
1:33:33
It seems the Chinese troops are
advancing toward our northern borders.
1:33:36
Where's His Holiness?
1:33:38
The glory of
a British coronation.
1:33:40
Nowhere in the world
is there anything half so wonderful.
1:33:43
Only once or twice in the life of each
one of us comes such a day as this...
1:33:46
when we know that we are watchlng
history in the making...
1:33:49
when we know that generations to come
will look back on this day...
1:33:53
for May 12, 1937, wIll be
one of the dates in hlstory...
1:33:56
that schoolchildren will learn about
maybe a thousand years from now.
1:33:59
Every moment
the thrill of excitement--