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Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 |
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impertinent this suggestion would seem to Lord
Curzon, or to any of the gentlemen around him who
take themselves and the world so seriously and make
it so tragic. The outsider venturing to criticise is
most likely to be ignored; as a matter of fact he is
often not supplied with sufficient data for wise criti-
cism. Did I not believe the affair in Tibet to be
one in which only the admitted facts need be con-
sidered, I should feel that the able men in Calcutta
were probably right, despite my first impressions to
the contrary. But it is true that administrative
minds are often clouded by knowledge of the very
detail which gives them a sense of superiority. And
again, the important moral relations between com-
munities, as between men, are best guided by a few
general principles, and even one who is not viceroy
of India may grasp these.
So clear is it to me, however, that outside amateur
criticism is liable to error, when the case becomes
complicated, that I now proceed with much more
hesitation than before to state one of my first and
strongest impressions as to the unwisdom of the
present Tibetan policy. It has seemed to me that
when the facts shall be understood in Afghanistan,
as in the end they will be, grave risk will arise of
losing the nascent favour of the Ameer, and of
compromising British interests, in a quarter where
none will question their present importance, how-
ever one may criticise the course which led to their
creation. How different the situation there from
that existing in the north-east! Afghanistan is co-
terminous with British-administered territory. Tibet
is not. Afghanistan is inhabited by a warlike peo-
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