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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [‎18r] (36/482)

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The record is made up of 1 file (239 folios). It was created in 23 Mar 1933-30 May 1940. It was written in English, French and Russian. 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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Copy,
(E 6970/5126/54)
No . 514 .
752/2/39)
My Lord,
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that a
member of my staff, in the course of a recent conversation with
an official of the Personnel Department of the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs who also has duties connected with the sections
dealing with the Press, was informed that the Japanese Minister
had that same day called to see him.
2, Monsieur Nakayama having concluded the business which
formed the pretext for his visit proceeded to give his views
on Soviet-German policy in Asia. He laid stress on propaganda
which is being conducted possibly under the inspiration or with
the connivance of the Germans with a view to the conclusion of
a fresh Irano-Soviet commercial agreement. Once this had been
concluded the Soviet Government could he said, be in a better
position to carry on propaganda and already the new Soviet
Ambassador had arrived (See my despatch No. 315 of the 28th
September 1939) with extra staff. The result of this, Monsieur
Nakayama said, would certainly be that Soviet demands on Iran
would steadily increase, and the Iranian Government would not
be in a position to resist them.
3. Monsieur Nakayama explained the aim of these attempts
at Soviet penetration into Iran as being a step on the road to
the possession of India, an age-old goal; the realization of which
would entail a permanent occupation of at least part of Iran.
/ 4 .
The Right Honourable
The Viscount Halifax,
K.G. , G.C. S. I, , G.C. I.E, ,
etc. etc. , etc, ,
FOREIGN OFFICE.

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Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, treaties and other papers, reporting on commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Russia. The papers cover: a deterioration in relations between Persia and Russia in 1932-33, culminating in the ban on Russian imports into Persia; the Persian Government’s Foreign Trade Monopoly Act of 1933 (ff 218-223); the Irano-Soviet Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation, agreed between the two nations in 1935; a copy of the treaty in French (ff 101-106); a further printed copy of the treaty in French and Russian (ff 42-85); the termination of the 1935 treaty in 1938; the agreement of a new Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940, created in response to events in the Second World War (ff 3-7).

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 Hugesson, Horace James Seymour; the British Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, Victor Alexander Louis Mallet; the Commercial Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran, Sydney Simmonds; HM’s Ambassador to Russia, the Viscount Chilston, Aretas Akers-Douglas; Noel Hughes Havelock Charles of the British Embassy in Moscow.

The file includes several items in French, being newspaper cuttings and texts from the Persian newspapers Le Messager de Teheran and Le Journal de Tehran.

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1 file (239 folios)
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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 240; 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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