File 4535/1928 Pt 13 ‘Persian Gulf: Bushire: Residency Flagstaff.’ [46r] (85/94)
The record is made up of 1 item (44 folios). It was created in 25 Mar 1929-23 Dec 1929. 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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Now paragraph 12 of Clive's despatch No, 89 of
the 16th February seems to show that the point of the
Persian complaint is that the flagstaff is situated on
Persian territory, outside the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
grounds. If
this is so, it seems to us that the sooner it is removed
the better. It may be true that any sudden removal of the
flag would create a bad impression on the Arab coast of the
Gulf, but unless we are careful the Persians are quite
capable of removing it themselves, and where will our
prestige with the Arabs be then?
The Foreign Office view is that by far the wisest course
would be unostentatiously to remove the flagstaff from its
present position ourselves without delay, and set it up in
side the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
grounds, or else, as you suggest in your
official letter, to fly the flag in future from the roof.
It seems to us important not to await further representations
from the Persian Government, only to remove it later (we
inevitably must do so sooner or later) reluctantly and
obviously under pressure from them. Nor do we think: the
removal possesses any value as a bargaining countev in
Clive's/
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This part contains papers relating to the question of the removal of the flagstaff of the British Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire from outside the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. grounds, due to the objection of the Persian [Iranian] Government that the flagstaff was in Persian territory (this was being discussed in the context of the treaty negotiations taking place between the United Kingdom and Persia).
The papers mostly consist of correspondence and 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 minute papers.
The correspondents are as follows: 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. ; the Foreign Office; 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. ; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; and HM Minister, Tehran (Robert Henry Clive).
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