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0327 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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must arise which should again force that expansion
of empire which English historians (and latterly
American apologists also) virtuously deplore. The
way was now prepared for the self-sacrificing ad-
vance. It was, then, in a moment of fatal digres-
sion from a traditional policy of non-intercourse,
that the Dalai Lama, a few years ago, sent presents
to the Czar, thus ''offending'' the British Govern-
ment and giving Lord Curzon argument with which
to partially satisfy the Exeter Hall conscience of
his nation. We are now brought to a consideration
of recent events.