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Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’ [‎82r] (163/357)

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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as a remit of OetallccJ treaty dlooxiedion9 9 5t io realised
by the roroAon lOTejmcient that this claim t?ould be barrel
by the cxlmtin? draft. This conjecture le 9 I reoosnise ft
all too likely to be borne out by events# 3 consider*
hotirever* that tJie oltnatlon nhich uoulfl then arise* ^hilc
full of difficulty* rjonlfl be unlikely to foaor? exactly
the lines eu^ceeted in your despatch under reply md nould
probably not* therefore* justify the adoption of the oolntion
T/hioh yon propose* If, as you eu^oeat, the iereian
Govern*nent had it in their potrer to brin^ about the
liquidation of this claim by the mere act of referring it
to the ZsC.srrw of nations* there wald certainly be
advantages in allouring it to be brought before the claims
commission provided for in the treaty article* especially
if this could be done without abandoning the clause barring
nor claims in general* In poin' rf fact* however, while on
attempt on the part of the scraian Government to bring this
olalr before the League of Hat5ons would undoubtedly be
t
embarrassing and unwelcome. It is by no me one certain that
such action would result in the final liquidation of the
case# There would indeed be at least a fair prospect of
convincing the Council of the league that ouch questions
cannot be regulated by them without stultifying the
principles underlying the optional Clause * Again* an
Intimation by His najeat:; 1 ® Government that there were many
British claims against the lerclan Government, uhioh would
hato to be considered concurrently* would be lees likely to
lend to a general compromise (os you anticipate) than to
induce the Couaoil to drop the mutter altogether, in the
realisation that they were coming to be looked upon as a

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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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