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
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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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412 SOME CONCLUSIONS
greater deference be shown to their views. If agents
abuse this latitude, then they can be censured, as I was
censured, or punished in any way that is necessary. And
if the present men are not good enough to be entrusted with
responsibility, then means might be taken for sending out
better. Competitive examinations are not the only or
the best means of obtaining rulers for India. And there
is no reason why India should not be provided with just
as good men as go to Whitehall or Westminster. But
never can it be seriously believed that it is the wish of the
British people that the principle of trusting the man on
the spot be abandoned, or the sense of responsibility in
their agents damped down.
For the good working of this principle, which I would
here again remark is much more fully carried out by the
British Government, with all its imperfection of constitu-
tion, than by any other Government in the world, there
must, however, be much more intimate relationship than
there is at present between these men and their principals
ill England. The men in India and the politicians in
England must be better known to each other, and have
more confidence in one another. And it is upon this
point that I would make a few suggestions of a practical
nature.
Politicians who aspire to control the affairs of our most
complex Empire might, like our Royal Family, make an
effort at some periods of their lives to become personally
acquainted with the local conditions of the more im-
portant parts of the Empire. Communication is rapid
and easy nowadays, and a week in a railway-train through
India would be better than not seeing India at all. If
you have seen a man for a couple of minutes you under-
stand him, and, above all, take an interest in his actions,
more than if you had never even seen him. And if it is
impossible for all Secretaries of State to have visited
India before they come to the India Office, there does not
seem any inseparable impediment to a Secretary of State
visiting India during his term of office. There are many
amid great objections, I know, but these surely cannot be
more numerous or more serious than are the objections to
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