Coll 28/99 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty negotiations, 1937– (Perso-Baluch Frontier Demarcation)’ [41r] (81/275)
The record is made up of 1 file (135 folios). It was created in 9 Feb 1935-17 Oct 1939. It was written in English. 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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Extr a ct from letter from Mr. Nevile Butler (Tehran)
No. 539/1/58 dated 15th June, 1938.
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I have reported in a telegram about the alleged
expulsion of Iranians from Bahrein, (No. 78 of the 11th June) ,
that Soheily told me that presently he would have to take up
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
questions with us.
At the Birthday party I said to him something to the
effect that happily there was no serious trouble between our
two countries. He demurred a little and went on to say with the
greatest geniality that, when he had disposed of various
’questions actuelles* with other countries that he had found
requiring settlement, he would really have to take up Persian
Gulf questions with us, and I understood him to say that he
realised that it was no good expecting that we would give up
Bahrein. We were then interrupted.
Soheily’s views about the Gulf are discussed in
paragraph 4 of Tehran despatch No.51 of the 5th February, 1937,
and those of His Majesty’s Government are defined in Foreign
1 Office telegram No. 32 of the 5th March, 1937. Possibly it is
worth thinking now whether anything should be added to them.
We withdrew from Hen jam and Basidu without any quid pro quo.
Shall we eventually do the same as regards Bushire? In the
event of discussions of Gulf questions taking place, we would
of course insist on the Iranian Government recognising our
special relations with the Sheikhs. I wish that we could, as
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the Persian [Iranian] Government’s renewed desire in 1937 to finalise a treaty of friendship between Britain and Iran (also referred to in the file as the Anglo-Persian Consular Convention). The papers, chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Horace James Seymour, the Foreign Office, and 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. , cover: outstanding points remaining to be agreed prior to the signing of any treaty, including the withdrawal of Iran’s claims to Bahrain, Tamb [Greater Tunb] and Abu Musa, and the demarcation of the Perso-Baluch frontier, between Iran and British Baluchistan, now part of Pakistan; the British Government and Government of India’s reluctance to commit to a demarcation of the Perso-Baluch frontier, in part because of the financial implications of such a project; the despatch of an Iranian technical commission between February and May 1938 to recommence a survey of the Perso-Baluch frontier that was originally started in 1932; arrangements for the Government of India’s cooperation with the Iranian survey party, with the support of the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Chagai; reports on the Iranian survey party’s activity and progress; a confidential entitled ‘Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa and Sirri’ written by 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. , and dated 24 August 1928 (ff 45-48); the return of the Iranian survey party to the frontier in late 1938.
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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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 137; 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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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:9v, 11r:137v, back
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