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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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428 SOME CONCLUSIONS
was quite impossible for them to expect support from us,
the Russians, or anyone else ; and by similarly impressing
upon the Chinese that there is a point at which we should
be bound to protest if they attempted to go beyond it.
He would have been the friend of the Tibetans, and he
would have been the friend of the Chinese ; and as friends
of both he would have made them friends with one
another.
I am, then, for a forward policy in 'Tibet as elsewhere,
though by forward I do not mean an aggressive and
meddlesome policy. I mean rather one which looks
forward into the future, and shows both foresight and
forethought—a policy which is active, mobile, adaptive,
and initiative. I imply a policy which recognizes that
great civilized Powers cannot by any possibility per-
manently ignore and disregard semi-civilized peoples on
their borders, but must inevitably establish, and in time
regularize, intercourse with them, and should therefore
seize opportunities of humanizing that intercourse, and, by
promoting neighbourly association, minimize that risk of
war which isolation, aloofness, and estrangement, invariably
bring about. It is because we are islanders that we are
such inveterate upholders of isolation. But by so doing
we are working against the grain of the world, and must
indubitably suffer in the long-run.
If I might personify the spirit of such a forward
policy, I would choose the personality of the late King
Edward. As he drew England out of her splendid
isolation," so, would I urge, should we be brought out of
our Indian isolation. And the means he employed in
Europe are equally applicable to Asia. At the bottom of
all would be the same broad, generous humanity, great-
heartedness, and wealth of sympathy ; there would be the
same tactful vigilance and the unceasing efforts to know
our neighbours and to give them opportunities of knowing
us. There would be the same staunch loyalty to friends,
and, above all, there would be that same courage and
initiative which prompted King Edward, in his first State
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