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0111 India and Tibet : vol.1
インドとチベット : vol.1
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of affairs on the frontier, and were compelled to recognize
that circumstances had recently occurred which threw on
them the obligation of placing our relations with the
Government of Lhasa upon a more satisfactory footing.
And they acknowledged that the proposal to send an
armed mission to enter Lhasa, by force if necessary, and
establish there a Resident, might, if the issue were simply
one between India and Tibet, be justified as a legitimate
reply to the action of the Tibetan Government in returning
the letters which on three occasions the Viceroy had
addressed to them, and in disregarding the Convention
with China of 1890. But they stated that they could not
regard the question as one concerning India and Tibet
alone. The position of China in its relations to the
Powers of Europe had been so modified in recent years
that it was necessary to take into account those altered
conditions in deciding on action affecting what still had
to be regarded as a province of China. It was true that
we had no desire either to declare a protectorate or
permanently to occupy any portion of the country. But
measures of that kind might become inevitable if we were
once to find ourselves committed to armed intervention.

For the above reasons, the Home Government thought
it necessary, before sanctioning a course which might be
regarded as an attack on the integrity of the Chinese
Empire, to be sure that such action could be justified by
the previous action of Tibet, and they had, accordingly,
come to the conclusion that it would be premature to
adopt measures so likely to precipitate a crisis in the
affairs of Tibet as those proposed by the Government of
India. They would await, therefore, the result of their
reference to the Russian Government, and after those
explanations had been received they would be in a better
position to decide on the scope to be given to the negotia-
tions with China, and on the steps to be taken to protect
India against any danger from the establishment of foreign
influence in Tibet.

When the Russian assurances were at length received,
the purport of the conversation Lord Lansdowne had held
with the Russian Ambassador was at once communicated