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'Persia. No 2 (1909). Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia' [‎155r] (57/150)

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The record is made up of 1 item (74 folios). It was created in 1909. 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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ment representatif, dont la necessite avait ete reconnue par lui-meme, mais sans
insister sur le retablissement de la forme dans laquelle ce regime existait en 1907-8,
lui conseiller de procdder sans delai, a 1’aide des personnes mentionnees an § 1” et
dn Conseil de 1’Empire actuel, ainsi qne d’autres hommes de merite, a Telaboration
d’nne loi instituant nn nouveau corps electif qui repondrait aux us et coutumes
historiques du people persan, ainsi qu’a ses idees religieuses, satisferait a ses besoins et
contribnerait a 1’etablissement de la paix et de 1’ordre en Perse.
3. Si le Schali donne des preuves suffisantes de sa decision de suivre les conseils
de la Uussie et de 1’Angleterre, lui accorder Fappui des deux Puissances en vue de la
conclusion dun emprunt exterieur plus ou moins considerable, a la condition de
I’institution dune commission speckle composee des directeurs des banques russe et
anglaisc a Teheran et de delegues persans, laquelle commission—
(a.) Controlcrait le deboursement des ressources de TEtat et veillerait a ce quo
ces ressources soient alfectees exclusivement aux besoins du pays; ^
(6.) Surveillerait 1’ordre d’elaboration des devis des assignations annuelles pour
toutes les branches de F Administration, ainsi quo le mode d’application de ces devis,
en conformite avec le budget qui serait dresse par le Departement des Einances persan
avec Taide de la commission de controle; et
(c.) Assisterait le Ministke des Einances du Schali dans la revision et la
regularisation des lois sur le maliat.
4. Afin de donner au Gouvernement du Scbah une preuye de leurs sentiments
amicaux envers la Perse dans un moment aussi difficile pour elle, la llussie et
TAngleterre seraient pretes a mettre a sa disposition une avance de 5,000,000 de Ir.
sur 1’emprunt a conclure. Cette avance serait destinee a subvenir aux depen ses
immediates necessitees par Tintroduction des reformes.
Saint-Petersbourg, le 3 (16) janvier, 1909.
(Translation.)
THE state of affairs in Persia, far from improving, becomes^ daily more involved,
and the condition of the country is becoming very serious. Affairs in Azerbaijan arc
growing worse : the power of the Shall is merely nominal, the struggle bctu ecu the
parties Continues, the import trade is gradually decreasing; the revolutionary party
lias recently compelled all payments due from the Indo European lelegraph Company
to be made to the Tabreez local assembly. Disorders have also recently broken out
at Ispahan, which town at the present moment is in the hands of the Bakhtiaris. The
people of Meshed refuse to pay their taxes. The situation in Ghilan and in various
other provinces is no less threatening. A section of the Mujteheds of Nedjet aie
distributing proclamations throughout the entire country, in order to incite the people
against the Shah, calling upon them to defend their rights and privileges. ^ Ihe Shah s
treasurv, on the other hand, is empty, and the army, as well as the administration, are
unpaid, and are compelled to live by plundering and preying upon tae peacea )lc
population. If events continue in this direction, no one can foretell where the
disorganisation of the Empire of the Kajars will cease. _ _ _ .,
The economic interests of Russia and England having recently suffered consider
ably from the disorders in Persia, the two Powers should take the present situation m
the country into serious consideration, and should devote themselves to devising a
plan of action with a view to avoiding further complications which might compel
them to depart from their passive attitude as regards events in Persia. _
In strict conformity with the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs
of Persia, the British and Russian Governments have hitherto restricted themselves
exclusively to giving the Shah friendly advice to re-establish the constitutional icgime,
abolished after the events of the 10th (23rd) June, 190S. The two Governments
adopted this line of conduct with the conviction that the restoration of the absolutist
rename in Persia was impossible, and that the realisation of the people s wishes by t le
Shah was the only method of pacifying the country. At the same time Russia and
England clearly realise that the re-establishment of the Persian constitution m a form
similar to that which existed prior to the dissolution of the Medjliss is equally
undesirable, as the country would thereby only be thrown into a still deeper state of
anarchv. The first Medjliss, which was dependent upon the revolutionary anjumans;
gave unmistakable proof of its complete incapacity to guide the affairs of the country
in a new direction. This opinion is shared by a considerable number of the better
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A publication comprising copies of correspondence, principally between HM Minister at Tehran, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, HM Ambassador to Russia, and various representatives of the Persian Government. The item also contains extracts from the Monthly Summaries of Events, submitted by HM Minister at Tehran.

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A table of contents can be found at folios 128-135.

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