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From: SOVIET NNION
FROE MOSCOr/ TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir S. / Cripps
No. 7g4 .
July 8 th, 1941.
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Sto.lin bnen went on co raise the Question — which he
Aciordin- a L 1 thp^ a]:it -'' of , Iran ) and Afghanistan.
^S ir info nnation there are 6,000 to 7,000
He tWnk^thpt +h rm r r countr y i and too inany in the latter,
rarrv on? th the & ? rm ^ n s and the Italians will try to
P^rsL and th?t P d g ? inSX Ba ^ oilfield s, and against us in
5 ^ n(i J s urgently necessary that something:
should be done about it. He asked me what I sugsestef.
2 . I told him that we were aware of these dangers
and had already made representations in Tehran about them.
But I thought a concerted demarche by His Majesty's
Government and Soviet Government might have some effect.
With this he agreed. I told him that this would have to
be arranged by you in London but I would ask you to do
something along these lines if you thought it possible,
concerting it with the Soviet Ambassador, to whom he is
sending instructions.
3. I said I v/as v/ithout information as to the
situation in Afghanistan, but no doubt you would check up
on this and see if our information coincided with theirs,
in which case you would perhaps take similar joint action
in Kabul.
4. He stated that no doubt the Shah, whose
unpopularity he appreciated, would attempt to play each
of us off against" the Germans and that therefore some
form of combined action was necessary. He thought there
was now a chance of such action succeeding but that if the
occasion were missed the chances would be much less
favourable later.
See my immediately following telegram. £y^f ,
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RECo. POL. DEPt.
n JUL1941
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.