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Coll 28/57 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish relations; Treaty of Friendship & Security’ [3r] (5/157)
The record is made up of 1 file (77 folios). It was created in 10 Dec 1932-21 Oct 1940. 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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1 have the honour to report, on the authority
ol my lurkieh colleague, that the Iranian Government are
most difficult to deal with even in matters affecting
iurkey, In s ite of the special consideration which is
always shown to the Turkish Ambassador on official
occasions, and to the dependence upon Turkey which the
Shah is credibly reported to feel. Monsieur Davaz says
that he even has great difficulty in securing permission
for the return to this country of Turkish women and
children who have gone to iurkey ior a summer holiday and
now wish to rejoin their husbands: the Iranian authorities
dela^r oheir decision lor weeks, though an Iranian subject
wishing to go to Turkey is able, the Ambassador declares
to secure a visa for Turkey on the day of his application,
dut it is chiefly in regard to the execution of the Turco-
Persian frontier done Convention of 1937 that Monsieur
Lavaz finds the Iranian Government most difficult. He
says that the Iranian frontier authorities are never
willing to attend the periodical meetings provided for in
Article V of the Convention, and that in spite of the terms
ol Article Xv they allow all their undesirables to remain
near the frontier.
2. The Iranians may have a different version of the
frontier question, but It is of interest that in matters
which should be less difficult to deal with, the Turkish
representative seems to find the same delay and ill-will
that beset the path of this Legation. Monsieur Lavaz
complains that in Iran, unlike any other country he has
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Correspondence and papers concerning relations between Persia [Iran] and Turkey. Subjects covered include: the signing of treaties of friendship and neutrality between the two nations in 1932; the proposed visit of the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] to Angora [Ankara] in 1934; the visit of a Turkish delegation to Persia in 1936, for talks on a number of issues including security, frontiers, judicial assistance, extradition, commerce and customs; newspaper cuttings from Le Journal de Tehran , dated 1937, reproducing a number of treaties, conventions and agreements between the Governments of Persia and Turkey, for ratification in the Persian parliament (ff 22-38); the rectification of the Perso-Turkish frontier, including a report by J P G Finch (with map) entitled ‘Turco-Iranian Frontier: Rectifications of January, 1932, and May, 1937, in the area of Marbishu [Mārmīshū]’ (ff 9-15).
The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, and Horace James Seymour; HM’s Ambassador to Turkey, George Russell Clerk and Percy Lyham Loraine. The file contains a number of items written in French, being copies of treaties and communiqués exchanged between the Governments of Turkey and Persia.
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 (77 folios)
- Arrangement
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 78; 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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- Coll 28/57 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish relations; Treaty of Friendship & Security’
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- front, front-i, 2r:14v, 16r:17v, 19r:21v, 23r:23v, 25r:25v, 27r:27v, 29r:29v, 31r:31v, 33r:33v, 35r:35v, 37r:37v, 39r:40v, 42r:72v, 75r:78v, back
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