The Middle Eastern Question: Or, Some Political Problems of Indian DefenceJ. Murray, 1903 - 512 pàgines |
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The Middle Eastern Question: Or, Some Political Problems of Indian Defence Sir Valentine Chirol Visualització completa - 1903 |
The Middle Eastern Question: Or, Some Political Problems of Indian Defence Sir Valentine Chirol Visualització completa - 1903 |
The Middle Eastern Question: Or, Some Political Problems of Indian Defence Sir Valentine Chirol Visualització completa - 1903 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 142 - Awake! for morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And lo! the hunter of the east has caught The sultan's turret in a noose of light.
Pàgina 431 - ... shall not be applicable to any of the colonies or foreign possessions of her Britannic majesty unless notice to that effect shall have been given, on behalf of any such colony or foreign possession by her Britannic majesty's representative at Washington to the United States Secretary of State, within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention.
Pàgina 468 - Inasmuch as inquiry into the circumstances by the Chinese Government has shown the existence of many obstacles to the Mission to Thibet provided for in the Separate Article of the Chefoo Agreement, England consents to countermand the Mission forthwith. With regard to the desire of the British Government to consider arrangements for frontier trade between India and Thibet, it will be the duty of the Chinese Government, after careful inquiry into the circumstances, to adopt measures to exhort and encourage...
Pàgina 12 - These happy leaves are a nosegay plucked from the thornless garden of Concord, and tied by the hands of the plenipotentiaries of the two great states in the form of a definitive treaty, in which the articles of friendship and amity are blended.
Pàgina 414 - States, without impairing the " general principle " of neutralization established in Article VIII of that convention, have for that purpose appointed as their plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States of America ; And His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India, the Right Honorable Lord Pauncefote, GCB, GCMG, His Majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the United States; Who, having communicated...
Pàgina 438 - Persia on the next demise of the Crown; and you will also say that His Majesty's Government are gratified to find that the Governments of Great Britain and Russia are acting with regard to the affairs of Persia in the same spirit, and are equally animated by a sincere desire to maintain not only the internal tranquillity, but also the independence and integrity of Persia.
Pàgina 469 - The boundary of Sikkim and Tibet shall be the crest of the mountain range separating the waters flowing into the Sikkim Teesta and its affluents from the waters flowing into the Tibetan Mochu and northwards into other rivers of. Tibet. The line commences at Mount Gipmochi on the Bhutan frontier and follows the above-mentioned waterparting to the point where it meets Nipal territory.
Pàgina 449 - Yakub Khan. With these reservations the British Government are willing that you should establish over Afghanistan — including Herat, the possession of which cannot be guaranteed to you, though Government are not disposed to hinder measures which you may take to obtain possession of it — as complete and extensive authority as has been hitherto exercised by any Amir of your family.
Pàgina 476 - Add as follows: — In addition to the Manwyne and Sansi routes sanctioned by the Convention of 1894, the Governments of Great Britain and China agree that any other routes, the opening of which the Boundary Commissioners may find to be in the interests of trade, shall be sanctioned on the same terms as those mentioned above.
Pàgina 467 - Thibet, the Tsung-li Yamen, on receipt of a communication to the above effect from the British Minister, will write to the Chinese Resident in Thibet, and the Resident, with due regard to the circumstances, will send officers to take due care of the Mission ; and passports for the Mission will be issued by the Tsung-li Yamen, that its passage be not obstructed.