IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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DISCRETION LEFT TO AGENT 11
All that he asked, and more than he asked, Rhodes gave
him, and then despatched him, saying, 6 6 Now, I don't want
to hear of you again till I get a telegram saying your job
is done."
These are, of course, ideal methods of conveying
instructions to an agent, which it is not always possible for
.a high official to give. Lord Curzon would, I know, have
liked to give similar instructions to me, and, as far as pro-
viding money, staff, military support, etc., he did. But,
with the closer interconnection of public affairs, public
business is now so complicated that it is not, I suppose,
possible to leave to an agent the same amount of discretion
that Warren Hastings did to Bogle. Still, great results
in many fields, and, what is more, great men, have been
produced by the use of Warren Hastings' method of
selecting the fittest agent, and then leaving everything in
his hands. I do not see that any better results have
been obtained by utilizing human agents as mere
telephones. If the conduct of affairs has become com-
plicated, that does not appear to be any reason in itself
for abandoning the method. It appears only a reason for
principals and agents rising to the higher occasion while
still pursuing the old successful method. Ease of com-
munication has brought nations more closely together and
complicated affairs, but it has also made possible readier
personal communication between principal and agent.
And therefore there is need not so much for curtailing
the discretion of the agent while he is at work as for
utilizing the greater facility for personal intercourse now
possible. In conversation the agent will be able to
impress his principals with whatever local and personal
difficulties he has to contend with, and the means
required for carrying out their object, and they will be
able to impress him with the limits outside which it is
impossible to allow him to act. It is a clear certainty that
the present tendency to concentrate, not merely control,
but also direction, in London, cannot go on for ever. An
Empire like ours, immense in size and immensely com-
plicated, cannot be managed in detail from headquarters.
The time must come when the House of Commons and
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