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Persia Telegrams (Foreign Office) [‎198v] (24/36)

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The record is made up of 1 file (18 folios). It was created in 9 Apr 1919-27 Jul 1919. 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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Secondly, His Majesty’s Government are definitely committed to discussion
fortWh oi manner, time, and means to be chosen for putting Persia s compensation
and frontier desiderata before tbe Peace Conference. , XT oro
On the other hand, Persian Government were reported in yonr telegram No 356
to have no desire that these two questions should be raised before the Peace
^Further, the wording about Mushaver in last sentence, if allowed to stand, would
place upon His Majesty’s Government the primary responsibility of ousting his
Excellency from Paris. . .. . ,. c , .
This would, I think, be a serious error. For it would make a lifelong enemy of
Mushaver and would antagonise his friends. Isor is it necessaiy, since have no
objection to him per se, and am quite prepared to discuss matters with him when once
agreement has been signed, provided his Government are assured of his loyaltv and
bona fides. He is perpetually asking for meeting with me, and it may he that plan
would be to take him into confidence. But of this Persian Government must he the
judge.
I am quite ready to leave to your discretion whether to raise above-mentioned
points at the same time as that of the loan or to defer them for sepaiate conversation
with Persian Prime Minister, but your frequent ami reasonable appeals for expedition
suggest that action should not be delayed.
(Repeated to India.)
No. 6.
* Earl Curzon lo Sir P. Cox (Tehran).
(No. 336. Most Urgent.) Foreign Office, June 13, 1919, 3 p.m.
MY telegram No. 330 of 10th June.
In first paragraph for -words “ Government of India,” &c., to “may be possible,”
please substitute following :—
“ Government of India will be asked to afford the Treasury such facilities as may
he possible towards remitting His Majesty’s Government moiety of loan over India so
far as it may be impossible to do so directly by purchase of krans for sterling from
Imperial Bank of Persia. ”
(Repeated to India.)

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This file consists of a series of telegrams regarding Britain's relations with Persia in the aftermath of the First World War. Almost all of the correspondence is conducted between Sir Percy Zachariah Cox [Acting British Minister to Persia] and Earl Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon, Acting Foreign Secretary in the absence of Arthur James Balfour, who was attending the Paris Peace Conference]. Other correspondents include the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger], the Foreign Secretary [Balfour], 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. , and the Secretary of State for India [Edwin Samuel Montagu].

The telegrams document negotiations – running concurrently with the Paris Peace Conference – between Cox and the Persian Government for an Anglo-Persian Treaty. Cox's telegrams notify Curzon of the details of a draft agreement; Curzon's telegrams to Cox make requests for revisions to the wording and, in certain cases, to the essence of the draft.

Topics of discussion include: the Persian Government's desire for the frontiers of Persia to be rectified in certain localities and Britain's policy on this issue; Persian claims to compensation for damage suffered during the war at the hands of the other belligerents; the likelihood of the Persian case being heard at the Paris Conference; details of a proposed new loan to the Persian Government from the British Government, and the Secretary of State for India's concerns about the implications of this loan for the division of expenditure on Persia between Imperial and Indian revenues.

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1 file (18 folios)
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The telegrams are arranged in approximate chronological order.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 187, and terminates at f 204, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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