been wild, not capable of bearing good fruit. Its occupation is not necessary to the preservation of the Empire's peace ; nor would it conduce to the Empire's prosperity. Any harm that could possibly come out of Tibet could be met, at the moment of its appearance, at less moral and material cost than by years of repression and injustice based on mere suspicion. The whole world must come under the British flag if the "maybes " which cost Tibet its independence were to be applied to the rest of us.
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