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0376 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
チベットとトルキスタン : vol.1
Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1 / 376 ページ(カラー画像)

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doi: 10.20676/00000231
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IF, then, the Younghusband raid seems to be what
men call a crime, and what men call a blunder,
what next? Let us suppose two possibilities: first,
that in a reasonable time the treaty shall be rati-
fied substantially as written. Then, in order that
any effect be had, in order that things be not as
they were before, there must be occupation by force
sufficient to awe the Tibetans. The corresponding
occupation of Turkestan by Russia, sooner or later,
must be contemplated, and the probable series of
complications already described in the excerpts from
the North American Review. Second, suppose the
treaty to be not ratified, but emasculated. The
most difficult point may be the excision of the in-
demnity clause, for it must be supposed that even
in India, non-voting, non-represented India, her
British rulers would hesitate to charge up an ac-
count of £500,000 against Indian revenue, acknow-
ledging its expenditure to have been unwise. Yet
that would be the cheapest way out, I think, and, if
necessary, London might help to bear this burden;
but that is a counsel of perfection. The perfectly
honourable, perfectly Quixotic, and hence perfectly
improbable course would be the following: Let it
be frankly stated, "We believed you might be in con-
spiracy to put yourselves in Russian leading-strings;
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