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0071	India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1

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India and Tibet : vol.1

インドとチベット : vol.1

DELAYS OF CENTRALIZATION 45

Local officers are often told that they are too im-

patient, and that they too frequently want to settle a

matter by local action, when it might be so much better

disposed of by correspondence from headquarters ; by

negotiations, for instance, between London and Peking, or

London and St. Petersburg. 'l'hey are urged to take a

wider view, and to display a calmer spirit, and greater con-

fidence in the wisdom and sagacity of their London rulers.

But when thirty years after this very moderate and perfectly

reasonable request was made by the local authority, the

matter was still no nearer settlement than it was when

the request was made ; and when the House of Commons,

which controls the destinies of the Empire, was still asking

why we did not apply to the Chinese, the local officer's

o faith in the superior efficacy of headquarters treatment

is somewhat shaken. And he often questions whether

matters which, after forming the subject of voluminous

correspondence between the provincial Government and

the Government of India, between the latter and the

India Office, between the India Office and the Foreign

Office, between the Foreign Office and the Ambassador

abroad, between him and the Foreign Government, which

6 are discussed in the Cabinet, and form a subject for debate

I in the House of Commons and the House of Lords,

and for platform speeches and newspaper articles in-

numerable, do not in . this lengthy process assume a

I magnitude which they never originally possessed ; whether,

having assumed such magnitude, they ever really do get

settled or only compromised ; and whether, after all, they

might not have been settled expeditiously and decisively on

the spot before they had been allowed to grow to these

alarming proportions.

There are, one knows, many cases which can only

be settled by the Central Government, and which are so

settled very satisfactorily, but I am doubtful if Tibet

is one of these, and whether we have been wise in the

instance of Tibet, and in many others connected with

China, to make so much of, and expect so much from, the

Chinese Central Government, which has so little real

control over the local Governments. Perhaps if the

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