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File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents' [310r] (251/280)
The record is made up of 1 item (139 folios). It was created in 12 Jul 1912-30 Jan 1917. It was written in English and French. 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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Merrill to u*Connor
••Your minister (Marling) and Churchill tooth assure
roe that they will Keep on havering away so that 1 can return to
Far3*.
irling to 0»Connor:-
” ^/e fully realise that your Governor General must toe
removed and 1 have been hammering away at it since my arrival**.
^any sidelights re cast on ownley 1 s differences of
opinion vith his J ussian colleague . orostovets, and on the
policy of jealousy, which the t o M protecting** lowers, which
have their claws deep in the flesh of the defenceless Persian
victim, have been pursuing even during the war. To Townley
and for his successor Marling ( pa more disdainful in his
attitude towards the Persians than any other man whom the
lish ever sent on a diplomati c fllissieil to Teheran) the
Russian .vm has sad or orostovetz vis .3 a red r-ig to . hull.
Marling wrote on T ay 17th, 1915, to the British Consul in
ohira-s, and elabbrutes his biting criticism in a letter to dir
George uchanan, the British Ambassador in Fetrogr ,d, dated
June 20th, 1916.
"As to Korostovetx, X regret that 1 am unable to share your
belief in his prightnes:;. I have no confidence in him t • I 1 .
.veryone here describes him is a person with whom it is
imp, | to get on for I ~h oi time# typo 0 .'ho
does every thing out of cussedness and enjoy > doing di'it nobody
would do. o-one here appears to regret his departure, least
of all his own .-.mbassyi I ill) not help tt« at the Russian
ahk: his ide of co-operation bet teen the -.;an t ue d 1 ascompte
and the imperial Bank of Persia merely means that the latter
vill divide it 3 easiness vith the former, which would have been
nkrupt ion •' P ri/ • hto&*Ttmking**
uf
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The second part of the volume (folios 185 to 324) concerns conditions of trade in South Persia and German documents relating to this. Copies of two books are present in the volume: ' La Perse et la Guerre Européenne par un Patriote Persan, Édition de la Librairie Nouvelle de Lausanne, 1917' and ' Behind the Veil in Persia: English Documents, C.L. van Langenhuysen, Amsterdam 1917'. Other visual items of interest in Part 2 include a 'Map of Persia' (folio 299) depicting the Russian and British zones of influence along with project railways, frontier lines and provincial boundaries.
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- File 3852/1912 Pt 2 'Persia. Conditions in South Persia. German Documents'
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- 185r:187v, 212r:215v, 300r:324v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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