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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
SOMETHING BEHIND BUREAUCRACY 433
to leave the Afghans and frontier tribes alone. But yet
they supplanted the Moghuls at Delhi and annexed the
Punjab.
It is absurd to put all this down to scheming bureau-
crats. There must have been something bigger than
bureaucrats behind it all. And in the case of Tibet,
though the advance to Lhasa was undoubtedly due to a
very large extent to Lord Curzon's strenuous advocacy,
and without that would not have taken place for some
years later, yet it is a clear absurdity to suppose that his
words alone, or his words, supported only by the opinion of
Mr. White, myself, and a few other bureaucrats, would
have been able to prevail against the deliberate wish and
intention of the Cabinet in England, then faced by an
opposition which the subsequent General Election showed
had the great bulk of public opinion behind it. Lord
Curzon is a man of great force and ability, and a most
strenuous advocate of any cause he takes up, but even he
could not make a British Cabinet reverse their opinion
unless he had some strong compelling force behind
him.
Or, again, take the case of Lord Morley and Sir
Edward Grey in this matter of Tibet. No one could have
desired less than they did to intervene in Tibet. They
had come into office supported by an enormous majority
in the country—a majority which had had the very
question of Tibet before them. They had to fear nothing
from opposition in Parliament or in the country. They
had shown themselves most amenable and compliant to
Chinese wishes and Chinese methods. We had a right to
say that the Tibetans should pay the indemnity, but we
forebore to press this point, as the Chinese undertook to
pay it on their behalf. We had a right to occupy the
Chumbi Valley till the trade-marts had been effectively
opened for three years. The trade - marts were not
effectively opened—our Agent reported, indeed, that they
were effectively closed—but again we did not want
to press the point, and the Chumbi Valley, our sole
material guarantee for the observance of the Treaty, was
evacuated. We also engaged in a definite Treaty not
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