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2 unusual facts about Hugh Edward Richardson


Hugh Edward Richardson

He was an advocate of the right of Tibetans to a separate political existence, a case he made in two books, Tibet and Its History (1962) and A Cultural History of Tibet (1968), and at the United Nations when the issue of Chinese oppression of Tibet was raised by the Irish Republic, represented by Frank Aiken, during the 1959 UN General Assembly debate on Tibet.

Hugh Richardson

Hugh Edward Richardson (1905–2000), British diplomat and Tibetologist



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