Persia Telegrams (Foreign Office) [‎189r] (5/36)

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Azerbaijan, and Turkestan
might be allowed to make
se her great ambition is to
local inhabitants might
ey and Russia in place of
t.
ielp her in this matter any
.tive and any [? trouble] by
ition that was needed at
wn behalf by us if we so
little.
ril 11.)
Tehran, April 11, 1919.
r V ro 9 U0 f or co-operation
>resumably that he acta in
resent.
Majesty’s Government in
i n.)
'ehran, April 11 , 1919.
nents who, probably for
>posed to arrangements
srcome by coercion or
above mentioned if we
} icy of persuasion is to
penditure of a good deal
square rest of Cabinet,
purpose, paid down and
] ur e .must receive royal
s attitude is that, there
alue; short of that, he
cd to an assembly of a
commend itself to the
^ in progress are being
the autumn, which will
pohVt^o/ry Ther tLy ^ Shah « ive8 trouble ^
(Sent to imlia.)
N T o. 8.
S' r T. ('ox to Earl Curzon.~(Uercived April 13.)
(iNo. JbdA.) 1 ’
(lelegraphic.) K.
MV telegram No. 2(»3.
1 should have added following :—
Tehran, April 11, 1919.
Triumvirate also asks for personal guarantees for themselves. They had strongest
conviction that policy they were embarking upon was right one, and that their country
would m the end he grateful to them. At the same time they were backing their
opinions at some risk, and asked lor guarantees of asylum for themselves and assurance
ol realising income on their property iu the event of things going wrong and their
having to leave the country.
(Sent to India.)
No. 9.
Earl Curzon to Sir I\ Cox.
(Sc. 225.)
(Telegraphic.) Foreign Office, April 17, 1919.
YOUR telegrams Nos. 257 to 263 of 9th to 11th April, inclusive, are receiving
careful consideration. I desire to express my appreciation of the maimer in which you
have conducted the negotiations.
My hrsi impressions are that the general agreement (your telegram No. 258) will
prove acceptable, subject to insertion in paragraph 2 of words “ all sucb expert advisers. ’
Question whether Financial Adviser ought to be in service of His Majesty’s Govern
ment isalso one for consideration, and I am consulting Treasury.
Your telegram No. 259.
In view of strong feeling against secret agreements, it would appear desirable,
if anything is to be done on these points, to embody it in subsequent letter to
Minister. His Majesty’s Government would like further time to consider (a) and (h).
(a) would need addition of such words as “ if and when opportunity offers.”
Colonel Wilson is being consulted about the frontier.
His Majesty’s Government could not commit themselves to maintenance in
perpetuity of Kajar dynasty, or to subsidy to Shah, which would amount at present
rate to 120,000b a year. , . . 11 i m
If Persian finances are properly administered rise m revenue would benenciaily
afi'ect civil list of Sovereign. ,, \ , i i
Further payment of 500,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. would, if ever approved, have to be merely an
advance out of any prospective loan.
(Repeated to India.)
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