Brooke Dolan and Maj. Ilia Tolstoy, traveled through India to Tibet in September 1942 to contact the DalaiLama, then just 7 years old. Brooke Dolan, 2nd from left, and Ilya Tolstoy, right, with their monk-interpreter, Kusho Yonton Singhe, standing outside Lhasa.
Gifts sent with Tolstoy by President Roosevelt for the Dalai Lama in 1942.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama showing Patek Philippe pocket watch, one of the gifts he received from US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942, to US Senator Leahy, 2016.
