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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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RUSSIAN DANGER, TO INDIA 75
invade India through Afghanistan, but she could never
invade India across 'Tibet and over the Himalayas. Why,
then, should we be so touchy about her action there ?
Why not let her send as many missions and officers as she
liked ? This also seems a broad-minded attitude, such as
a platform orator in the heart of England might safely
take up. But, again, it was not so easy for those away on
the frontier of the Empire, with immediate responsibilities
on their shoulders, to feel so complacent. If Russia had
been the friend she is now, and if our influence in Lhasa
had been unmistakable, it would have been easier to take
such a view, and it is, indeed, in my opinion, the right j
view now to take. But in 1902 she was still on the crest
of a great advancing wave of expansion. She had not yet
been great
by Japan. She had spread over Manchuria
with startling rapidity.p Where, at the time of my journey
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there with Sir Evan James, no Russian had ever been
seen, there were now Russian railways and Russian can-
tonments. She had expanded in Western Turkestan and
annexed the Pamirs, and it was generally looked upon
only as a matter of time before she would absorb Chinese
Turkestan and Mongolia. If, then, we complacently, and
-without a protest, allowed her to establish herself in Tibet, 11,
we could hardly expect those States dependent on us and ,
bordering 'Tibet to think otherwise than that this was the
real Power in Asia, and this, therefore, the Power to look
up to.
A full-dress Russian invasion of India, through Tibet,
no responsible person ever dreamed possible. But, without
a real invasion, Russia established in Lhasa, while we were
unrepresented there, could cause Government a great deal
of anxiety. In practical detail it would mean the increase
of our army on the North-East frontier by several
thousand men.
It was obviously prudent, therefore, to prevent her
acquiring a more predominant influence than our own in
Tibet. While it was quite natural that she should be glad
to have an influence at Lhasa, it was still more natural
that we should be jealous of her having more influence
than we had. For, while our border was contiguous with
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