IIIFカラー高解像度
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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
426 SOME CONCLUSIONS
for the preservation of order upon our frontier it is highly
desirable that we should see that these intentions are
carried out. As I have admitted, the Tibetans do require
being kept in control up to a certain limit. They have
been very recalcitrant, and must expect to be brought
to book. But when the Chinese go beyond merely keep-
ing order, when they drive the Dalai Lama from his
capital, depose him, seize his Government, garrison the
whole country, and direct the administration themselves,
then they simply cause a general discontent and uneasi-
ness upon our frontier, and, from the point of view of
expediency alone, we are then justified in intervening, as
we intervened in Egypt when the 'Turks tried to increase
their degree of suzerainty beyond its normal limits.
As to the method of intervention, my own view is
decidedly in favour of sending a British officer to Lhasa
itself. The Tibetans have actually asked for this to be
done, so there is no difficulty on that score, and it is
within the Chinese Empire, so the Chinese, if they wish to
be considered in any way a civilized Power, should have no
objection on their side. It is at Lhasa that a British officer
could most effectively explain to the Chinese the limits
beyond which it is impossible for us to countenance their
proceeding, and it is there also that he could best impress
the Tibetans of the bounds within which alone we can have
relationship with them, or render them support. If such
an officer could find it feasible to visit Peking and
London before proceeding to Lhasa, he ought to be able
to put Tibetan affairs upon a footing adapted to all the
interests concerned. And as to risk, if we keep an officer
at Gyantse we might as well send one to Lhasa.
Whether this is done or no we ought, in my view, to
alter our whole attitude to the Tibetan question. Instead
of expecting to secure peace by shrinking from having
anything to do with the people, we should rather put our-
selves forward to acquire increased intimacy. We should
seek to secure quiet by the more effective and certain
method of deliberately making use of every means we have
of keeping up and increasing contact with the Tibetans.
We have given the one line three great trials, and it has
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