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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [207r] (414/482)
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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PERSIA.
May 10, 1933.
CONFIDENT LAI
I93S
Section 3.
[E 2440/21/34] No. 1.
Mr. Hoare to Sir John Simon.—(Received May 10.)
(No. 198.)
Sir, Tehran, A pril 22, 1933.
WITH reference to my despatch No . 134 of the 2 5th March last, I have the
honour to report that commercial relations between the Persian Government and
the Soviet Union appear to be reaching breaking-point.
2. A special commission, including Farajullah Khan Bahraini (Dabir
Azam), the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, and Yassai (whose position of head
of the Department of Commerce is reported to be a little shaky), has been
appointed to examine the whole question of Perso-Soviet trade.
3. Meanwhile delegates of Persian chambers of commerce have been
convened to discuss the matter, and the Iran of the 18th April published a
resolution passed by this commission urging the denunciation of the existing
treaty with the Soviets and the conclusion of a new agreement under which
Persian merchants could trade with the Soviets on an equal footing. A French
translation of the resolution reproduced from the Messager de Teheran of the
19th April is enclosed herewith.
4. Negotiations are entirely suspended, and I have heard of no development
indicating any desire on either side to reach a compromise. Indeed, so far as the
Persian Government are concerned, it seems natural to regard the resolution of
the chambers of commerce as evidence of an intention to denounce the treaty, in
spite of the fact that it is valid for three years from the exchange of ratifications,
which took place at Moscow in June 1932.
5. In the meantime business between the two countries is practically at a
standstill. The Bazaar branch of the Russian Bank has been closed and the
books transferred to the head office. The Soviet commercial representative is
reported to have sent back to Baku 80 per cent, of his Tehran staff, and reports
from Resht state that Soviet concerns there are reducing expenses and staff all
round, and that 300 employees have, much against their wishes, been returned to
Baku in the first fortnight of this month.
6. I have written a separate despatch on the reduction of Soviet
consular staffs.
7. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Department of Overseas
Trade (No. O.T. (B)-77) and to His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad (No. 30).
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARF.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Extract from the Messager de Teheran dated April 19, 1933.
AU cours de la seance tenue dimanche soir par le conseil des chambres de
commerce, M. Hadji Amine Todjar a remis a M. Yassai, Directeur general du
Departement du Commerce, une declaration preparee par la commission speciale
des susdites chambres et dont voici un resume :
(Traduction.)
“ A la suite des telegrammes et des requetes que nous avons adresses au cours
de ces derniers temps au Conseil des Ministres, concernant nos methodes
commerciales avec le Gouvernement sovietique, nous avons pense que 1’Accord
commercial russo-persan etait officiellement denonce et que la conference actuelle
des chambres de commerce avait pour but de faire connaitre nos points de vue
pour la conclusion d’un nouvel accord avec 1’U.R.S.S.
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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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- Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’
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- 207r:207v, 140r:141v, 116v
- Author
- Le Messager de Tehran
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