This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... all sources of complaint which either invito foreign aggression or stir up restless spirits to domestic revolt." By way of further precaution, Lawrence repeated the suggestion ho had thrown out two years before, that some attempt should be made to arrive at a clear and friendly understanding with Russia, for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... all sources of complaint which either invito foreign aggression or stir up restless spirits to domestic revolt." By way of further precaution, Lawrence repeated the suggestion ho had thrown out two years before, that some attempt should be made to arrive at a clear and friendly understanding with Russia, for the purpose of counteracting unfounded rumours and preventing unnecessary alarms. The Court of St. Petersburg should be told, " in firm but courteous language," that it must not interfere in the affairs of Afghanistan, or of any other State on the Indian frontier. And it would be well, he added, if our relations with the Persian Court were placed henceforward under the entire control of the Minister for India. Such were the words of weighty wisdom in which Sir John Lawrence summed up the recorded opinions not only of all his Council, but of the leading officers, civil and military, in the Panjab; such men as Sir Donald Macleod, Mr. Robert Davies, Neville Chamberlain, and Sir Henry Norman. Nearly all the wisest statesmen and foremost soldiers in India were of one mind with the Viceroy on this matter. They preferred his policy of quiet watchfulness to the fussy, forward policy demanded by Rawlinson and Frere. It was not that they underrated Russia's power for possible mischief, but because they had taken careful measure of our own resources, and could see that, even in the unlikely event of a Russian invasion, the true danger to our rule lay nowhere across the frontier, but in India itself. To their thinking a Russian invasion of India was not more likely, and was still less feasible, than a French invasion of England. Nor could any one have seen moro clearly than Lawrence himself the folly of trying to checkmate Russia on the Oxus by arou...
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