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on the good leadership and organisation — and the good luck -
which have distinguished the Mesopotamian expedition so
far—the exact antipodes of the E. African fiasco. Our troubles
will, I fancy, begin with the climatic conditions during the
hot weather and with the administrative questions which will
have pretty soon to be faced, and though Mesopotamia must
obviously be an Indian appendage, it would be, I thim^va
deplorable mistake to import hard and fast methods of Incfian
bureaucracy. One point by the way, which should be to your
advantage. The Gulf will cease to play such a prominent
part as most of the questions connected with it will have solved
themselves, and it will be quite impossible to treat Southern
Persia beyond the coast line as an offshoot of Mesopotamia .
Yours very sincerely
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Letter from the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
in India, A. H. Grant, to the British Consul in Shiraz, Major
O’Connor, 7 th Dec. 1Q14.
Letter stamped:
Delhi, 7. 12. 14.
Foreign and Political Department
India
Private.
My dear O’Connor,
Many thanks for your letter and most kind congratulations
on my acting appointment as Foreign Secretary. It has hap
pened at a very strenuous — but intensely interesting time
and candidly I shall be sorry — apart from all questions of
filthy lucre — when the time comes to revert to second string.
It is a great comfort that the situation in Shiraz and Pars
generally has been so comparatively peaceful of late, thanks
doubtless in a great measure to your personal efforts and in
fluence. We have all hands quite full enough as it is — and
Persian complications would be a great bore at this moment
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