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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
NEED FOR REMAINING AT LHASA 199
what I always regarded as much more important than
any paper settlement, and as our real object in going to
Tibet—the establishment of a good feeling between our-
selves and the Tibetans, we must not only go to Lhasa,
but be able to stay there for an ample period. Yet when
I stated this opinion to Government, I should, I acknow-
ledge, have given it in a less brusque way than I did in
the telegram I have quoted.
I had this much in excuse. I had, as I have related,
at dawn on the day I sent that telegram, and before having
had my breakfast, been attacked by the Tibetans, and had
myself to fight with a rifle in my hand. I had had, after
breakfast, to ride nearly thirty miles with the constant risk
of further attack on the way. I had had to do all this
after being cooped up for a month in a house without
being able to stir outside it. I had therefore to compose
and cipher my telegram when I was physically exhausted
and depressed in spirit. I knew that military considera-
tions, and Imperial considerations, and international con-
siderations, and every other consideration which hampers
action, were dead against my proposal, and I was not in
the mood to be respectful towards them. Still, I was ill-
advised to let my telegram have the slightest tinge of
brusqueness in it. If I wanted to get the thing done, I
should have preserved that marvellous imperturbability
and cheery good sense which, from the Strangers' Gallery,
I have so frequently admired in British Ministers in the
House of Commons. All this I note for the benefit of
future leaders of unpopular Missions. For the effect of
my telegram was not to further the object I had in view
the making of all preparations for keeping the Mission
at Lhasa for the winter, if need be. It merely earned for
me a reprimand from Government, who telegraphed back
on June 14 that they found it necessary to remind me
that any definite proposals I made for their consideration
should be, as far as possible, in conformity with the orders
and present policy of His Majesty's Government ; and I
was to remember that the policy of His Majesty's Govern-
ment was based on considerations of international relations
wider than the mere relations between India and Tibet,
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