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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [204r] (408/482)
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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CONFIDENTIAL.
E 3276/21/34]
No. 1.
4579
1933
CTION 7.
Mr. Hoare to Sir John Simon.—(Received June 20.)
(No. 270.)
Sir, Tehran, June 3, 1933.
WITH reference to my despatch No. 198 o f the 22nd April, I have the
honour to transmit to you herewith a memorandum prepared by Mr. Simmonds
reviewing in a general way the recent trading difficulties between Persia and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
2. It will be seen that the stoppage of Perso-Soviet trade is almost universal.
3. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Department of Overseas
Trade (No. O.T. (B) 104), the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, and
to His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad (No. 38).
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
Enclosure 1 in No. 1.
Memorandum by the Commercial Secretary, Tehran.
Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.
ALTHOUGH there have been no fresh developments in Perso-Soviet
commercial relations during the past month or so, it may be worth while now to
try to get some idea of the present situation and to record recent events.
A meeting of Tehran merchants on the 13th May passed a resolution
protesting against the attitude of the Soviet Government and their commercial
representatives towards Persia, and requesting the Persian Government to take
energetic action to secure better treatment for Persian trade. A report of this
meeting with a summary of the resolution, as published in the Iran of the
14th May, is attached.
The attitude of the Persian Government, as recently described by a
confidential informant, was one of complete loss of confidence in Soviet words and
undertakings. During the absence on leave of the former Soviet Ambassador.
Petrovsky, considerable progress was recorded in discussions between Yassai,
head of the Persian Department of Commerce, and ShevtsofT, the Soviet
commercial representative, and a draft agreement covering most of the points at
issue was ready for signature. With the return of Petrovsky, however, matters
again changed for the worse. Petrovsky is said to have demanded as a
preliminary to any negotiations the cessation of the embargo and the abandon
ment of the Persian plan to set up a centralised office to deal with all Perso-
Soviet trade, together with other conditions considered to be incompatible with
the dignity of the Persian Government.
Yassai was dismissed from the Department of Commerce a few days ago,
and Shevtsoff has gone on leave. It is rumoured that Yassai was removed as a
result of Soviet complaints that he was not succeeding in settling the impasse,
and that ShevtsofT has been recalled in order that fresh Mnds on both sides should
be set to work on the problem.
It is probable that a good deal of the opposition to Soviet trading methods
voiced by Persian merchants in Tehran and the provinces is directly inspired by
the Government,‘atid would quickly subside if the Persian Government were able
to obtain satisfaction of some of its main grievances. A large unfavourable
balance of trade with any particular country is a matter of concern to the
Government rather than to individual merchants. Ihe difficulties of individual
traders in Persia in dealing with a strong monopolistic body represented by the
Soviet trading organisations are very much the same as those of individual
traders in other countries, who find themselves compelled to sell at the lowest
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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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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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