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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引用情報
PERSONEL INTERCOUR.SE 413
the present system. Mr. Chamberlain's visit to South
Africa benefited him and the Dominion, and the precedent
would be well worth consideration.
But if this is quite out of the question, the correspond-
ing idea of the Viceroy visiting England at least once in
his five years' term of service should not be so utterly im-
practicable. A swift cruiser would take him home or out
again in twelve days very easily, and the rest and the advan-
tages of personal conference would be of inestimable value.
The Agent-General in Cairo comes home every year.
More practicable and feasible, and probably more useful,
than either of these suggestions is that the India Office,
instead of being manned half by officials who have never
been to India and half by officials who will never go there
again, might be completely manned by officials who have
both been to India and who will return there—men of the
Indian Service in active employ. At present it consists of
officials of the Home Civil Service and of retired Indian
officials. What is wanted is an ebb and flow—a strong,
fresh current running to and fro from England to India.
It is bad to keep men out in India too long at a time, and
it is bad to have a Secretary of State who knows nothing
about India surrounded by men who have either never
seers it or who have left it for good. A Secretary of State
would, moreover, if the India Office were filled with men
of the active Indian Service, have a better acquaintance
than he now has with the personnel of the Indian Services ;
while, on their side, the latter would experience an infiltra-
tion of men who were acquainted with English conditions,
and of the especial difficulties and influences which beset
Secretaries of State in London.
Another direction in which improvement is possible is
in politicians in England making more effort to see men
serving in India who are home on leave. Lord Morley
has done far more in this direction than any other Secre-
tary of State, and his courtesy in this respect has been
much appreciated. His is a good precedent for other
Secretaries of State to follow and develop ; and if English
politicians could regard men of the Civil Service in India
as something more than clerks it would be well. A Lieu-
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