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Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention' [498r] (1006/1190)
The record is made up of 1 volume (591 folios). It was created in 18 Aug 1926-28 Jun 1933. It was written in English and French. 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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PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
[E 2783/208/341
No. 1.
Mr. Hoar? to Sir John Simon.—(Received June 7 )
(No. 255.) ''
S ' ’ WITH reference to my telegram of to-day, No. 82^1 "have the^honour'to
inform you that I had a meeting with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and il l
Minister of Court yesterday at the latter’s house at 10 o clocl ffis Highness
in anticipation of an all-day sitting, invited us both to lunch with him
2 1 have had some slight difficulty in recording the conversation, and,
though I am satisfied that the enclosed memorandum represents fairly faithfully
the gist of our conversation, its chronological order is probably not completely
accurate. ^
3 As you are aware from recent telegrams, 1 was afraid that the decision
reached by His Majesty s Government to transfer Imperial Airways route to the
Arab coast would be ill-received. As a matter of fact, the only indication that
Teymourtache gave of disappointment was an enquiry whether, supposing he
asked us to reconsider the decision on the understanding that we dropped our
request for facilities at Hen jam, we would agree to do so. When I told him that
we would certainly not he made no further reference to the matter.
4. It will be observed that, with regard to the discussion on the subject of
Henjam, 1 made a very definite reference to the probable views of the First Lord
of the Admiralty. I did so in order to make my statement as emphatic as
possible, and, so far as I can judge, I produced the’desired effect.
5. It will be further observed that I mentioned the steamships
Khuzistan and “ Baroda,” in connexion with which I am at present engaged
in discussing with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs two recent instances of the
aggressiveness of the local officials, to which it has been necessary to take
exception.
6. With regard to the x\rms Traffic Convention mentioned towards the end
of my memorandum, I enclose, for convenience of reference, copies of FeroughPs
letter, which I have already sent to the Department. I imagine that all
Teymourtache has in mind (I believe him to be really the author of the letter) is
the fact, or at any rate the appearance, of co-operating in the Gulf with His
Majesty’s Government on a footing of absolute equality. I admit that this
hankering after appearances is a little wearisome, but the abolition of the fez
in Turkey is an instance of a similar mentality, and I submit that where
Mustafa Kemal has led we cannot complain if Teymourtache seeks to follow.
7. Throughout the discussion Feroughi spoke only once or twice, but he
appeared to be enjoying himself, and displayed none of the uneasiness which I
noticed in my first conversation with him and Teymourtache. This I regard as
a favourable symptom, because, so far as I am aware, Feroughi, if he had the
energy and will-power to espouse any cause, would always have been the champion
°f good relations with His Majesty’s Government.
8. Teymourtache was friendly to the point of effusiveness throughout,
am fully aware that at one time he was equally, or perhaps more, friendly
towards my predecessor, and professed to him just as earnestly as he has to me
ais desire to reach a settlement. Even with this precautionary admission, I
eheve his protestations to be sincere, though I admit that 1 do not quite
understand why he is so insistent in his endeavours to extract the last possible
ou nce out of His Majesty’s Government; indeed, quite possibly prepared to miss
u settlement in an endeavour to extract the last impossible ounce. It may simply
e an extreme instance of the passion for a bargain which is deeply seated in the
astern mind, or it may be that he considers his position to be weakened by the
1 scorn forts which his economic policy has caused, and feels that an inconclusive
suspension of negotiations as the result of even an excessive assertion of Persia s
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The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provisions in an international covenant at the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932-1933.
The principal correspondents are: the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the 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. Political Department; the Admiralty; the Foreign Office; HM Minister at Tehran (R H Hoare); 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. ; and the UK Delegate to the Disarmament Conference (E H Carr). The volume also contains a number of communications received from members of the Persian Government (Muhammad Ali Foroughi [Furūghī], Abdolhossein Teymourtache, and Anoushirvan Khan Sepahbodi).
The material principally concerns negotiations between the Persian [Iranian] and British Governments. The Persian Government wished to have the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Gulf of Oman excluded from the list of special maritime zones, and sought British support in achieving this at the Conference. In response to British concerns about the possible impact on their ability to effectively limit the transport of arms and slaves in the region, the Persian Government proposed a bilateral Anglo-Persian treaty.
The following topics are discussed in depth:
- general Anglo-Persian relations, and the British desire to make progress with regards to the position of Henjam;
- the traffic in arms and slaves in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Gulf of Oman, and the Red Sea;
- the reluctance of several nations to ratify the 1925 Arms Traffic Convention;
- the definition and designation of 'special zones', 'special maritime zones' and 'native vessels' within the proposed conventions;
- the proposed bilateral treaty, its terms and conditions;
- the rights to inspect foreign vessels in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and British concerns over the ability of Persia to inspect British, Indian and Gulf vessels;
- the possibility of enabling other nations to accede to the bilateral treaty separately, to enable British inspection of the vessels of other nations within the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- and the concerns of the Admiralty over the potential impact that the agreement would have on their ability to police the traffic in arms and slaves.
The following are particular items of interest:
- memorandum of the Persian Delegation to the League of Nations, noting their objections to the Arms Traffic Convention, ff 517-522;
- communication from HM Legation to Tehran, enclosing details of an interview with the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Court (Foroughi and Teymourtache), ff 492-500;
- minutes of the Interdepartmental Cabinet Committee on the International Disarmament Conference, ff 394-420;
- details of a meeting between the Foreign Office and the Persian Minister to Switzerland (Sepahbodi), ff 185-192;
- Persian Government aide-mémoire on the progress of the negotiations, ff 121-124.
The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 volume (591 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 587; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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