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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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290 THE TREATY CONCLUDED
frost on the Karo-la, and the return march would take
nineteen days. General Macdonald concluded that Sep-
tember 13 was the latest safe date for our stay in Lhasa,
and would be glad of immediate orders, but, in the
absence of orders to the contrary, would fix the 15th for
the departure.
From the purely military point of view this was per-
fectly sound, and latterly the emphasis had been so much
laid upon military considerations that I had not much
hope of this date being altered. It had, indeed, got into
the papers from some military office in Simla, and reached
Peking. I was then in a very critical position. The
Treaty was almost within my grasp, but I might be
pulled back by military considerations before I had time
to conclude it.
On the other hand, Mr. White, Captain O'Connor,
and I had between us interviewed at length all the
principal men in Lhasa, and if we had not fully con-
vinced them, we had, at any rate, broken down most of
their opposition. And the Nepalese and Bhutanese, and
the Chinese Resident, too, had worked away to bring
about the same result. The consequence was that about
this time I was pretty well convinced that the bulk of
them had at the back of their minds decided to agree
to our terms, and put an end to the business. They all
realized that the Dalai Lama, or his previous advisers, had
blundered into a hopeless position, out of which they
had to get as best they might. No one man liked to
get up and propose that they should agree to our terms.
But if they were put in a position when all had to agree,
no one would undertake the responsibility of objecting.
That was how I gauged the situation.
The time to strike had come. If I had moved
earlier, before the Tibetans had, each of them, had the
opportunity of blowing off steam, I should simply have
aroused more armed opposition. If I delayed, I might
have to leave Lhasa through military considerations before
I ever got the chance. I had asserted fifteen months
before, in a letter to my father written when just start-
ing for Tibet, that I would sit tight any length of
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