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0350 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
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attractive, honourable in all private intercourse;
yet prostituting, as you and I may do to-morrow,
the magic power of the telegraph and the printing-
press for spreading abroad and perpetuating such
crude nonsense as may be read by any one who
takes even the blue-book side of the Tibetan story,
beginning with the "Commercial Mission" of 1885
and ending with the "Negotiating Mission" of 1904.
The first was a harmless fiasco, the second a tragedy,
with possibilities of becoming a fiasco. It was
organised to prevent Russian interference. Lord
Curzon has not yet disclosed any reasonable ground
for supposing Russia had endeavoured in Tibet any
acts unfriendly to British-Indian interests. But he
feared they might. This reason for the bold step
is openly enough alleged in the correspondence. It
was even more frankly admitted by every intelligent
discussion of the subject, particularly in the admin-
istrative columns of the London Times. For accur-
acy's sake, however, it is well to record the other
alleged motives, though if the historian, like the
judge, may adopt as a maxim, de minimis non curat
lex, then all the other incidents might be passed in
silence. After the Tibetans had been forced back
from the Sikkim frontier in 1888, it became prudent
to have some precise demarcation of boundary lines,
as nobody in London or Calcutta seems to have been
prepared just then for forward movement, nor had
any occasion been given which could be thrown to
Little Englanders (i. e., those who declare for ethics
of the individual in national affairs) as an excuse for
following the extremist policy of empire-stretching.
Therefore in 1890 a convention was drawn be-