Coll 28/96 ‘Persia. Judicial. Persian law regarding smuggling. Position of foreigners.’ [60r] (119/122)
The record is made up of 1 file (59 folios). It was created in 29 Dec 1936-17 Feb 1938. 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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we never regarded as conclusive and our rnain view, i.e. that
the Persians are entitled to amend their law in matters
touching the safeguards, remains unchanged. I have however,
thought it well to mention the effect of the expiry of the
Tariff Autonomy Treaty on the safeguards in so far as it seems
to deprive us of what was formerly regarded as a useful
argument.
n* Our best line now would seem to be to argue, as in
your letter, that the safeguards are unaffected by the
expiry of the Tariff Autonomy Treaty and that they still
retain the value given to them in paragraph 7 of the above-
mentioned Foreign Office despatch. But in putting the
matter to you officially I have felt obliged to record the
view which we hold here that there is no long any possibility
in pr actice of our being able to appeal to the safeguards
with any hope of success (in Tehran at any rate).
4. Needless to say any new expression of Foreign Office
views about the safeguards in due course would be of great
interest to us here.
Yours ever,
(Signed) Nevile Butler
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Correspondence concerning the compatibility of legal safeguards in relation to the expiration of the Tariff Autonomy Treaty, agreed between the British and Persian Governments on 10 May 1928, and a new law passed by the Government of Iran in 1936 that authorised the use of the death penalty against armed smugglers, as well as their trial by military court (i.e. behind closed doors). An English translation of the law is included in the file (f 58). The file’s principal correspondents are: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Horace James Seymour; the British Counsellor at the Legation in Tehran, Nevile Montagu Butler; and the Foreign Office. Correspondence includes: concerns raised amongst various British Government officials over the new law; a letter detailing concerns about the new law, sent by Seymour to the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Enayatollah Samiy (ff 26-28). A letter sent by Butler to the Foreign Office, dated 1 October 1936, contains an extract of French text: a portion of a memorandum written by the Armenian lawyer Raphael Aghababoff (ff 54-57).
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- 1 file (59 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 61; 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.
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- Coll 28/96 ‘Persia. Judicial. Persian law regarding smuggling. Position of foreigners.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:57v, 59r:60v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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