1:37:04
Go ahead.
1:37:07
When you were defense minister
to the previous Dalai Lama...
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then you wanted to
reorganlze the army.
1:37:13
Can you do it now?
1:37:15
The People's Liberation Army
is one million troops strong.
1:37:20
We have 8,000 men
with 50 pieces of artillery...
1:37:23
and a few hundred mortars
and machine guns.
1:37:26
The task is hopeless.
1:37:27
Then you refuse
the appointment, do you?
1:37:33
No. I accept it with honor.
1:37:36
You two gentlemen know about wars.
1:37:39
What type of weapon
do you recommend?
1:37:56
It seems the Chinese troops are
advancing toward our northern borders.
1:37:58
Where's His Holiness?
1:38:01
The glory of
a British coronation.
1:38:03
Nowhere in the world
is there anything half so wonderful.
1:38:06
Only once or twice in the life of each
one of us comes such a day as this...
1:38:09
when we know that we are watchlng
history in the making...
1:38:12
when we know that generations to come
will look back on this day...
1:38:16
for May 12, 1937, wIll be
one of the dates in hlstory...
1:38:19
that schoolchildren will learn about
maybe a thousand years from now.
1:38:23
Every moment
the thrill of excitement--
1:38:24
Do you thlnk someday people will
look at Tibet on the movie screen...
1:38:29
and wonder what happened to us?
1:38:31
The coronation coach moves forward.
1:38:33
I don't know.
1:38:35
Don't you have all the answers?
1:38:42
I don't.
1:38:51
On the same field where Tibetans
traditionally gathered for picnics...
1:38:55
ground was cleared
to build an alrstrip...
1:38:57
so that the plane carrying
three Chinese generals could land.