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OUTWARD TELEGRAM
B. 6515/615/G.
[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should be retained
by the authorised recipient and not passed on],
[CIPHER] I /! r- !
WAR C ABINET DISTRIByriOH 1
mM FOREIGN OFFICE TO WASHINGTON • - !
No. 9594
D*4>15 p e m» 28th October, 1944*.
28th October, 1944.
Repeated to Tehran No? 708
Moscow No, 4010
Goverrmien t of India
M.E. Min. No. 155 Saving
Bagdad No. 42 Saving.
T T T T T
IMMEDIATE.
Tehran telegram No,, 1079—^-of ^25rd-October] and your
telegram Nop 5809 [ of 26th October: Russian pressure on the
Persian (iovemment to granu oil concession].
. , I share State Department's apprehensions about Soviet
intentions in Persia and was abou'c to enquire views of
united States Government on this question 0
2. > You may inform State Department that, in view of
undertakings in Anglo-Soviet-persian Treaty and in Tehran
Declaration of 6 th December 1945 ( to which latter United
States Gpvernment are signatories)^ His Majesty's Government
are considering approach to Soviet Government.. General
lines of such approach would be that His Majesty's Government
in no way contest the right of Soviet Government to seek an
oil concession in North Persia: They consider, however, that
this is a question on which Persian Government nave a right
to take their own decisions and they have for their part
apcepted without demur the Persian decision to grant no further
oil concession during the war. They understand that United
States Government have taken a similar attitude. They feel
that it would not be in accordance with the above-mentioned
undertakings if the Persian Government were forced against their
vail to concede during the war the very extensive rights
which the Soviet Government are now demanding.
5, We v/ould propose that any initial approach to Soviet
Government should be based on the foregoing general lines, namely
that.it is a necessary condition of Persian independence that
Persian Government should not be expected to dispose of Persian
property otherwise than by free negotiation^ If Soviet
Government then deny that methods used by them are open to
objection on these grounds, we should quote from evidence in
+F R° a( 3- e r Bullard s telegrams and from Soviet sources, e,g*.
attacks on Persian Prime Minister in Soviet press*
„„ o T ,I: n ^5 n 0 S- 1 d r th . e United States Government be prepared to take
an approximately similar line with the Soviet Government?
TT . , Rave seen Tehran telegram No, 1092. p , ivin^ , vim/.d nf
United States ambassador, wETcE^o not -affect IctioS proposed above
O.T.P.