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
| |||||||||
|
| IIIFカラー高解像度 |
| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
引用情報
78 SECURING THE TREATY RIGHTS
advances, but she was prevented from doing so by the
despotic veto of the suzerain. The Government of India
wished to put an end to this 46 solemn farce," and would
have preferred to deal with Tibet alone. But they
recognized that China could not be entirely disregarded,
and only asked that, if the Home Government trusted to
the interposition of China, this might be accompanied
by a resolute refusal to be defeated by the time-honoured
procedure, and that if and when a new treaty was
concluded, it should not be signed by the British and
Chinese alone, but by a direct representative of the
Tibetan Government also.
At the same time, said the Government of India, the
most emphatic assurances might be given to the Chinese
and Tibetan Governments that the mission was of an
exclusively commercial character, that we repudiated all
designs of a political nature upon Tibet, that we had
no desire either to declare a protectorate or permanently
to occupy any portion of the country, but that our
intentions were confined to removing the embargo that
then rested upon all trade between Tibet and India, and
to establishing those amicable relations and means of
communication that ought to subsist between adjacent and
friendly Powers.
These proposals the Government of India commended
to the favourable consideration of His Majesty's Govern-
ment, in the firm conviction that if some such step were
not taken, a serious danger would grow up in Tibet,
which might one day, and perhaps at no very distant date,
attain to menacing dimensions." They regarded the
situation, as it seriously affected the frontiers which they
were called upon to defend with Indian resources, as one
in which their opinion was entitled to carry weight with
His Majesty's Government ; and they entertained a
sincere alarm that, if nothing was done and matters were
allowed to slide, they might before long have occasion
gravely to regret that action was not taken while it was
still relatively free from difficulty.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 2003-2019
National Institute of Informatics（国立情報学研究所）
and
The Toyo Bunko（東洋文庫）. All Rights Reserved.
本ウェブサイトに掲載するデジタル文化資源の無断転載は固くお断りいたします。