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Persia Telegrams (Foreign Office) [203v] (34/36)
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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No. 11.
6
Sir P. Cox to Earl Curzon.—(Received July 27.)
(No. 503.)
(Telegraphic.)
Tehran y July 27, 1919.
FOLLOWING is final text of loan contract. If 200,0001. is advanced, it will be
provided for by separate letter :—
(R.) “ Preamble. Between British Government and Persian Government with
reference to a convention concluded this day betweenj said Governments, it is agreed
ns follows :—
“ Article l! The British Government grants an advance of 2,000,0002. to Persian
Government. The said amount will be placed by British Government to credit of
Persian Government with Imperial Bank of Persia in London, in such instalments and
.at such dates as may be indicated by Persian Government after British financial
.adviser shall have taken up the duties of his office at Tehran in the manner ra dytail
in aforesaid convention.
“ Art. 2. The Persian Government undertakes to pay interest monthly at the rate
of 7 per cent, per annum upon sums advanced in accordance with article 1 up
to 20th March, 1921, and thereafter to pay monthly such amount as will suffice
to liquidate the principal sum and interest thereon at 7 per cent, per annum in twenty
years.
“ Art. 3. All the revenues and Customs receipts assigned in virtue of the contract
of 8th May, 1911, for repayment of loan of 1,250,0002. are assigned for repayment
of present advance, with continuity of all conditions stipulated in said contract,
and with priority over all debts other than the 1911 loan and subsequent advances
made by British Government. In case of insufficiency of receipts indicated above
Persian Government undertakes to make good necessary sums from other resources,
and for [? this] purpose Persian Government hereby assigns to service of present
advance, and of the other advances above mentioned, in priority and with continuity
of conditions stipulated in aforesaid contract, the Customs receipts of all other regions,
in so far as these receipts are or shall be at its disposal.
Art, 4. Persian Government will have right to repayment of present advance
at any date out of proceeds of any British loan which it may contract for.” (End of R.)
(Sent to India.)
No. 12.
Sir P. Cox to Earl Curzon.-- (Received July 27 )
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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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- Persia Telegrams (Foreign Office)
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- 187r:204v
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