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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
434 A FINAL REFLECTION
to annex Tibetan territory or to interfere in the adminis-
tration of Tibet." Even travellers such as Sven Hedin
we refused to allow across our border into Tibet. Every-
thing we could do to avoid interference and irritation
we did. And every sign of intriguing official had dis-
appeared from India. Lord Curzon had left, Mr. White
and I had retired, Captain O'Connor was in Persia, and
there was a new Foreign Secretary. Yet just as many
troops as accompanied the Mission at the start were moved
to the frontier ready to advance into Tibet at any time.
If men like Lord Morley and Sir Edward Grey so act,
may it not be inferred that bureaucrats also are carried
along against their will by some strange force ?
To attribute these forward movements merely to the
designs of bureaucrats is, then, to take but a shallow view.
Single men of great force and ability and little knots of
men can do a great deal, but to accomplish anything big
they must have a solid backing of some kind behind them.
They may, as it were, accentuate an impulse and carry it
forward a stage or two farther than without them it would
have gone. But unless they have this propulsion from
behind they can accomplish nothing. That great men
are not only the creators, but the creatures, of their
time is now a truism. Born at any other period than
the French Revolution, Napoleon might have been no
greater than Lord Roberts or Lord Kitchener. Born
in the Revolution, Cecil Rhodes might have been a
Napoleon.
The overwhelming probability is that there is some
strange force working in the affairs of men, and when
British Governments and the British people are driven
along against their will it is more reasonable to attribute
this phenomenon, not to the designs and intrigues of a
few officials, but to some inward compulsion from the
very core of things. The paragraph in the Spectator
must have been either written or inspired by Mr. Mere-
dith Townsend, then its co-editor and author of Asia
and Europe," a man who had lived in India, who had
made a life-long study of Asiatic politics, and who
honestly did not like the idea of advancing to Lhasa.
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