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'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession' [59r] (116/436)
The record is made up of 1 volume (221 folios). It was created in 21 Oct 1932-26 Jan 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
"VS I
!/
iE 6749/3880/34]
No. 1.
Mr. Hoare to Sir' John Simon.—{Received Decemler 20.)
517.)
7 Tehran, December 3, 1932.
' WITH reference to my telegram No. 201 of the 1st December, I have the
honour to transmit, herewith, a record of a conversation by the Acting Oriental
Secretary with Vossuk-ed-Dowleh this morning. Summarised translations of the
speeches mentioned by his Highness are to be found in my despatch No. 515
of to-day. . - „ •
2. When I saw him two days ago, I was almost painfully impressed by the
frank bitterness with which he talked about the Shah's avarice and despotism
and of the resultant misery, going so far as to say that if a Minister resigned office
he would run quite a serious risk of being thrown into prison. He had himself
held successively the portfolios of Finance and Justice under the Shah. At the
Ministry of Finance life was one long misery between the Shah's appetite and
Dr. Millspaugh's close-fistedness, and so he persuaded His Majesty to transfer
him to the Ministry of Justice; that office, however, proved even worse, as under
his very nose the Chief of Police organised murders and he was powerless to
prevent it. So he made his escape.
3. With regard to his Highness's theory that the Soviets are at the bottom
of the attack on the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and that Teymourtache has
worked in collusion with them, I feel that it is essentially improbable if only
because all the indications which we have are that the decision was suddenly taken
almost immediately after His Majesty's return from his journey to South Persia,
on which Teymourtache did not accompany him; moreover, so far as I can learn,
Teymourtache's position is not so secure as to make it likely that he would embark
on so dangerous an adventure. I will, however, admit that one of the many stories
which is going the rounds is that the attack on the Anglo-Persian Oil Company
was a gambler's fling by Teymourtache to restore his shattered credit with his
master. It is some time since I have seen him. I spoke to him on the telephone
last Monday to say that I heard that the town was to be decorated in honour of
the cancellation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company concession. For the first time
since I have known him he was in obvious haste to terminate the conversation.
This could, of course, be ascribed to a guilty conscience, but I am not sure that
that would trouble him, and I think it more probable that he was bored at having
to tell me things that events were about to reveal as glaring lies.
4. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India (No. 245), His Majesty's Ambassador at Bagdad (No. 123),
the Hon. the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
(No. 211), and the
Acting British Consul at Ahwaz (No. 88).
I have, &c. ^
R. H. HOARE.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Interview with His Highness Mirza Hassan Khan Vossuk {Vossuk-ed-Dowleh).
I WENT to see his Highness at his invitation this morning. He said that
when he had a talk with His Majesty's Minister on Thursday last he had not
seen the reports of the speeches in the Majlis on that day concerning the
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the cancellation, on 27 Nov 1932, of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession, because APOC was not acting in the interest of Persia in reducing the oil production in 1932. The British Government considered escalating the breach of the concession to the International Court of Justice considering it a dispute between the Persian Government and the British Government. The volume contains: APOC's report on the 'Situation in Persia' (folios 87-92) and letter from the Deputy Chairman of APOC to the Company's Stakeholders to inform them (folios 93-107). The volume also includes copies of articles from The Times and copies of printed documents related to the dispute, including the agreement with D'Arcy (folios 219-231).
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- 1 volume (221 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 237-239). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
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The foliation is in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, then 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G and 1H; 2-27; 28-40 are skipped or omitted; 41-124; 125-135 are skipped or omitted; 136-146; 147-155 are skipped or omitted; 156-185; 186 and 187 are skipped or omitted; 188-201; 202 and 202A and then it carries on until 245, which is the last number given on the last folio of the volume. Between 93 and 107 the folios are paginated.
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- Title
- 'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession'
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- Author
- Khan, Mirza Hassan
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