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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [5r] (9/357)
The record is made up of 1 file (176 folios). It was created in 13 Apr 1932-28 Dec 1936. 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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E 3725/3725/34.
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.l
7th December, 1936.
sir,
1 am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to inform you
that he would be glad of your advice in regard to certain
diificulties which stand in the way of any serious attempt
to secure a settlement of the outstanding claims of British
subjects and corporations against the Persian Government.
2. The claims in question, some of which date from as
much as forty years ago, were recently the subject of a
detailed examination by Mr. Hugh Ritchie, a retired official
of the Foreign Office with much experience in this kind of
work, who in audition to preparing a brief history of each
individual claim, also wrote a memorandum or general review
analysing the different categories of claims and the
principles whiah might be held to govern the degree of
support which His Majesty’s Government could properly accord
them. A copy of this memorandum (Confidential 11683) is
enclosed j_or your convenience, but a perusal cf its contents
is not essential to an understanding of the questions
discussed below.
3. An examination of the information collected by
Mr. Ritchie has shown that a great many of the claims which
have been presented to the Persian Government in the past
are either supported by insufficient evidence to warrant the
expectation that they could be successfully sustained before
an impartial tribunal or else relate to events for which the
Persian Government cannot be held to be liable according to
the accepted principles of international law and practice.
This examination is not yet complete, but at an approximate
estimate it may be said that the face value of the claims
His Majesty*s for/
Procurator-General. /
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Correspondence and other papers relating to the drafting of an article for the Anglo-Persian Treaty, concerning private claims made against the British and Persian Governments. The correspondence concerns: the exclusion from the article of British Indian claims; an agreement by both parties to not pursue certain claims arising from the ‘exceptional circumstances obtaining during the [First] world war’ (f 155); general treaty instructions from 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. , sent to the British Legation in Tehran; details of an historic claim for approximately £900,000, made against the British Government by a Persian subject named Socrates Atychides, whose ship, the Kara Deniz , was detained and declared as prize at Bombay [Mumbai] in 1914; a printed copy of a general review of British claims against Persia, prepared by Hugh Ritchie, formerly of the Foreign Office. Ritchie’s review includes indexes to supplementary volumes (not included in the file) entitled Persia (Legation Claims) , Persia: Consulate Claims (Peace-Time), and Persia: Consulate Claims (War-Time) (ff 22-51). The indexes are lists of British claimants.
Principal correspondents in the file include: John Charles Walton and John Gilbert Laithwaite of 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. ; George William Rendel and Christopher Frederick Ashton Warner of the Foreign Office; W R L Trickett of HM’s Treasury.
The file contains a single paragraph of French text: a draft of the claims article submitted by the Government of Persia (f 168).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (176 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 178; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 97r:124v, 128r:154v, 156r:167v, 169r:172v, 178r:178v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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