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Persia Telegrams (Foreign Office) [199v] (26/36)
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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This does not seem to be a point of much practical significance, because in all pro
bability this advance will be converted long before that through some scheme of
consolidation of floating debt.
Point 3 : Opinion expressed in concluding paragraph of my telegram No. 358 was
specifically qualified. Southern Customs revenue before the war afforded bare security
for then existing debt of 2,000,000£. They furnish at present sufficient receipts for
service of a debt of 6,000,000£., because the pound sterling costs 20 instead of 54 krang
and because whole of trade of Persia has been passing through these Southern customs
offices, as every other route has been closed. Kermanshah, however, is already drawing
away part of this fortuitous trade and Customs revenue.
This does not suggest, therefore, that amendment proposed by you [group
undecypherable] sufficiently explicit. I have collaborated with Triumvirate following
formula for this article as follows :—
“ All receipts pledged to Ifill loan are pledged to present advance with continuity
of all conditions stipulated in 1911 loan contract, and with priority over all debts other
than 1911 loan and subsequent advances. In case of deficit, Persian Government will
make good necessary sums from other resources, and for that purpose hereby pledges
to service of present and other advances above-mentioned in priority, and with
continuity of conditions stipulated in above-mentioned contract, the Customs receipts
[in whole or in part] of all other regions in so far as receipts are or shall be at its
diposal.”
This formula enables us to dispense with point 4, to which objection has been
made.
(Sent to India.)
(No. 352.)
(Telegraphic.)
Earl Curzon to Sir P. Cox.
^ 01 h telegram No. 43i of the 21st Junp
Foreign Office, June 28, 1919.
Precise manner, time, and means to be chosen for
discussed as soon as practicable by the two Governments.
Clause 4 will purl «v-,a r .
governments.
chosen for pursuing these aims shall be
Repeat to India.
(No. 3b4.)
No. 4.
Earl Curzon to Sir P. Cox.
it Muslunei is likely to be admitted to the
tisian negotiations will very shortly be
itpr ^ u ^ iaver an y special instructions,
orcign Office, July 1 , 1919.
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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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- IOR/L/PS/18/C196
- Title
- Persia Telegrams (Foreign Office)
- Pages
- 187r:204v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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