IIIFカラー高解像度
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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| Among the Celestials : vol.1 | |
| 天の間で : vol.1 |
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引用情報
84 AMONG THE CELESTIALS. [CHAP. IV.
How, then, are we to preserve our rights ?
No one who has moved about in Asia can
doubt that we and the Russians are in a state
of rivalry. Every year we come closer together
in one part of Asia or the other. It is
supremely important that we should meet in
peace. An honourable understanding between
the two powers, defining their respective in-
terests and the guarantees for maintaining them
would be of incalculable advantage to both.
But such an understanding would be absolutely
worthless if the Russians had any reason to
believe that it was sought for by us merely
through fear of them. It can only be of value
when the Russians on their part have realised
the need of it. This they apparently do not
realise at present, and our recent attempts to
come to an understanding with them proved
futile.
We can therefore either meet their bluff with
bluff on our part, as Beaconsfield did in moving
Indian troops to Malta, or else we can continue
our policy of countermoves. We have declared
ourselves against the policy of bluff as being too
risky. There remains the policy of counter-
moves. The Russian move towards Herat
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