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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [216r] (432/482)
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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
C
PERSIA.
April 11, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 2.
[E 1880/21/34] No. 1.
Mr. Hoare to Sir John Simon.—(Received April 11.)
(No. 134.)
Sir, Tehran, March 25, 1933.
WITH reference to my telegrams Nos. 53 and 54 of the 14th and the 16th
March respectively, I have the honour to report that His Majesty’s consul at
Tabriz has since telegraphed that the Soviet organisations there will probably be
reduced to a mere cadre by the 25th March. I have not received news of any
similar situation arising either at Meshed or Resht.
2. Despatches since received from Mr. Palmer furnish more details of the
local situation and the anxiety felt by merchants who have sold goods on credit
to the Soviet trade organisations. It is feared that the merchants may either lose
their money or at best be offered the return of the goods. It may safely be pre
sumed that such trade debts all over the country represent a considerable sum, as
there must be a great many long-term bonds—anything up to twelve months—
falling due in the near future. The sum of 15 million rials is mentioned as the
approximate total due to the Persians. If this is the case, it constitutes a formid
able lever in the hands of the Soviets in their negotiations with the Persian
Government.
3. I have no information as to when M. Petrovsky’s successor will arrive, or
whether an Ambassador will be sent before the settlement of the present trade
dispute.
4. In this connexion Mr. Palmer reports that the Soviet consul-general at
Tabriz, M. Sitchew, had intimated to his Turkish colleague that he quite expected
to be recalled to Moscow in May, mentioning M. Petroff, the present incumbent of
Resht, as his probable successor. He considered that the Resht consulate would
be closed and only the Pahlavi post retained. Changes are also apparently
impending in the consular representation at Shiraz and Isfahan.
5. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Department of Overseas
Trade (No. O.T.(B) 61), His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad (No. 26), and to His
Majesty’s consul at Tabriz (No. 8).
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
[775 1—2]
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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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- front, front-i, 2r:3r, 9r:23v, 25r:41v, 86r:87v, 90r:91v, 93r:95v, 97r:100v, 106v, 107v:113v, 115r:116r, 117r:131v, 134r:139v, 142r:169v, 171r:186v, 190r:204v, 206r:206v, 208r:213r, 214v:218r, 224r:226r, 227r:232v, 234r:240v, back
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