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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
BUREAUCRATIC DESIGNS ? 431
really, as the Spectator suggested, some strange force
driving us forward ? and if so, whither is it driving us ?
These questions are not applicable to the Tibetan
affair alone, but to the British Empire generally ; and not
only to the British Empire, but to the Russian Empire,
the Chinese Empire, the Japanese Empire ; to the French
in Tongking and Annam, Algeria and Tunis ; to the
Americans in the Philippines, the Germans in Asia Al inor,
the Austrians in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are of
fundamental importance, and go to the very root of things.
They are therefore worth examination by so practical a
people as ourselves.
In all these cases where one country advanced into
the territory of another the forward movement has been
attributed to the intrigues of bureaucrats or the crafty
designs of scheming politicians. If the Germans advance
to Paris, the action is attributed to the Machiavellian
designs of Bismarck ; if the Austrians openly declare what
is already the accomplished fact of their sovereignty over
Bosnia, Baron von Ahrenthal is believed to have deliber-
ately schemed some devilment ; if the French attempt to
assert a predominance in Morocco, Delcassé is accused of
plotting against Germany ; if the British laboriously
straighten out the affairs of Egypt, Lord Cromer is said
to be designing to establish a permanent occupation of
the country ; and if we advance to Lhasa, Lord Curzon
is accused of bureaucratic designs upon Tibet.
To take one very noteworthy case, the German
invasion of France in 1870. To this day the action is
ascribed to the deliberate designs of Prince Bismarck, and
the story of his alteration of the Ems telegram is regarded
as a proof positive of his set design heartlessly to make
war on France. Yet quite recently there has appeared in
the Reminiscences of Carl Schurz," the American states-
man, who was originally a German subject and revo-
lutionist of 1848, the account of a very remarkable
interview* he had with Bismarck before the Franco
German War. In a tone quite serious, grave, and almos
solemn, Bismarck said to Schurz : " Do not believe that I "Reminiscences of Carl Schurz," vol. iii., p. 272.
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