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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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416 SOME CONCLUSIONS
the Tibetans . the idea of keeping themselves secluded.
Anyhow, now they are quite evidently keeping us apart.
And any means we had of preventing the Chinese
insinuating themselves between us and the Tibetans
have been taken from us through the jealousy of the
Russians. Owing to this, we are not now in Chumbi and
we have not an agent at Lhasa. The Chinese fear we
may absorb Tibet and press them in Szechuan, and the
Russians fear a predominant influence with the Dalai
Lama might be used by us detrimentally to their Buddhist
subjects present and to be. Both, therefore, stand in the
way of that close relationship with the Tibetans which . is
now desired even more by them than by us.
This in brief is the situation at which we have arrived,
and in drawing conclusions as to any future action we
must first make our minds clear as to what we want in
Tibet.
Many say that we do not want anything at all. They
argue that the Tibetans live at the back of a stupendous
range of snowy mountains, and we had much better leave
them alone. Some go so far as to say that it was actually
wicked of us forcibly to enter Tibet in 1904. The Mission
was styled in the House of Commons " an ignoble little
raid," and even the then leader of the Opposition, after its
successful conclusion, said that it had lowered our
prestige." Before, then, I proceed to examine what we
actually do want I will deal with this question as to
whether we really want anything at all, and whether
there was anything inherently wicked in the Lhasa
Mission of 1904.
This idea of the immorality of in any way coercing a
people like the Tibetans is, I believe, largely based on the
assumption lying unconsciously at the back of people's
minds that Tibet is as distant and as much separated from
India as it is from England, that it is some remote and
inaccessible country into which no one but meddlesome
adventurers should want to enter. And they think that
for us to go out of our way deliberately to interfere with
a people who only wanted to be left alone was sheer
wanton wickedness, and nothing else—except, perhaps,
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