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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
80 NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA
He told the Ambassador* that the language of the com-
munication had seemed to him unusual, arid, indeed, almost
minatory in tone. He referred especially to the state-
ment that the Imperial Government might, in consequence
of our action in a country which immediately adjoined
the frontiers of India, find it necessary to take measures
to protect Russian interests in those regions. Lord Lans-
downe said he could not conceive why it was necessary
for Russia to evince her interest in this manner.
Count Benckendorff expressed his opinion that these
exaggerated rumours had been spread designedly in order
to foster ill-feeling between Great Britain and Russia, and
thought we should spare no pains in order to dissipate
them. There was, he said, no reason whatever why the
two Governments should have trouble over Tibet. Russia
had no political designs upon the country, and he presumed
we had not.
Lord Lansdowne replied that if he was invited to say
that we had no desire to annex Tibetan territory, he
would unhesitatingly answer in the affirmative, but he
was bound to be careful how he gave general assurances,
the import of which might hereafter be called in question,
as to our future relations with '.Tibet. It was natural that
the Indian Government should desire to promote Indian
trade in that country, and they would no doubt take
whatever measures seemed to them necessary for that
purpose. The Ambassador admitted that this was only
natural.
A few days later, on February 18, Lord Lansdowne,
in a further conversation with the Russian Ambassador,
recurred to the same subject.- He said that the Indian
Government had been seriously perturbed by the com-
munication made to the Foreign Office. The interest of
India in Tibet was, Lord Lansdowne said, of a very
special character. With a map of Central Asia before
him, he pointed out to the Ambassador that Lhasa was
within a comparatively short distance of the Indian
frontier, while, on the other hand, it was considerably over
1,000 miles from the Asiatic possessions of Russia, and
* Blue-book, p. 180. f Ibid., p. 181.
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