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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
432 A FINAL REFLECTION
love war. I have seen enough of war to abhor it. The
terrible scenes I have witnessed harass my mind. I shall
never consent to a war which is avoidable, much less seek
it. But this war with France will surely come. It will
be forced upon us by the French Emperor." The Ems
telegram was " edited," but no mere editing of a telegram
by a bureaucrat could by itself have produced a war, much
less a victorious war. We read that when King William
returned from Ems to Berlin, he was quite stupefied by
the outburst of popular enthusiasm which greeted him
from every side, and gradually came to see that it was in
truth a national war which the people needed and craved
for. What Bismarck did was simply to express and
personify the feelings of the people. And in a recent
work by a French writer a letter by Napoleon III. is men-
tioned, in which he admitted that the French Govern-
ment had been the aggressor in 1870.
So far as the British are concerned, it is an undeniable
fact that we have over and over again been forced forward
against our deliberate wish and intention. Our presence
in India is the best possible example. There could not
by any means have been a deliberate intention on the
part of the inhabitants of an island in the North Sea to
establish an Empire over 200,000,000 people at the other
end of the world, at a time when they could only be
reached by a six months' voyage round the Cape, and
when the islanders were engaged in a life-and-death
struggle with their powerful neighbours across the
Channel. International considerations," the 66 wider pur- I
view," the interests of the Empire as a whole," should in
allconscience have prevented the English from establishing
their rule in India. And yet, in spite of all these con-
siderations, in spite of peremptory orders from England,
in spite of Governor after Governor being sent out to stop
any further aggressions, English rule did extend over
India. The British Government and the British people
never intended, never even wanted, to supplant the
Moghul Emperors. They tried their very best, from
motives of clean, sheer self-interest, to leave the Sikhs in
the Punjab alone, just as they are now trying desperately
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