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Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [16r] (31/442)
The record is made up of 1 file (219 folios). It was created in 16 Sep 1941-13 Jul 1943. 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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FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE
DEPARTMENTAL N0o2
Sir R. Bullard
No* 18
6 th January, 1945*
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Reference paragraphs 6 and 7 of vour telegram No* 22
Saving-of'1942 and paragraph 2 of your telegram to wasnington
No. 8149 of 1942.
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2 . ‘ 'Tn the present circumstances here I feel that an
v. f/'/h attempt to obtain an immediate payment or a promise of
future .payment from the Persian Government for immovable
nrvay bassets arising out of military works undertaken by Allied
Governments will meet with no success^
• Persians, however mistaken they may be, look on
expenditure in this country as a curse and not a blessing,
•blame us for the consequential disruption of their economy
and see in our railway and other constructional programmes
nothing more than the creation of a;system of communications
far beyond the country's normal needs. They realise that
the criterion we apply before these works are undertaken is
our own military necessity and not Persian economic needs.
Your proposal would certainly be construed as an attempt on
the part of the wealthy United Nations to make an impoverished
Persia pay for a war which is none of her making or concern.
I am sure that no Persian Government which sponsored such
an arrangement could survive.
4. To put forward proposal as an anti-inflationary
measure would not blind the Persians to its real purpose,
namely to extract specie from them towards the cost of these
works* Even if I should eventually succeed in persuading
Persian Government that it is in the country s economic
interest that as much as possible of the surplus purchasing
power should be withdrawn from circulation by taxation or
borrowing, the Government would certainly be unwilling to
devote the proceeds to the purpose you suggest and would be
quick to argue that frozen purchasing power can in due time
be utilised for other purposes of mqre obvious value to <
Persia. [Grp. undec*. ?American] Financial Adviser who is
due in a few days may be expected to have views on this
point*
5. Russians have effected few improvements in their
area and these mainly with cheap Russian labour. .They might
therefore be expected to apply purely political principles
to the question of payment.
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Correspondence relating to the drafting and ratification of a treaty of alliance between Britain and the Soviet Union, introduced in the wake of the two nations’ invasion and occupation of Persia [Iran] in August 1941. The treaty set out to establish friendly relations between the three nations involved, and to ‘respect the territorial integrity, the sovereignty and the political independence of Iran.’ The file contains multiple drafts of the treaty articles, along with a final printed copy of the treaty, dated 29 January 1942 (ff 67-69). The file’s principal correspondents are: the British Legation in Tehran; the Foreign Office.
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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- 1 file (219 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 221; 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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- Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:55v, 58r, 59r:66v, 70r:146v, 150r:160v, 166r:181v, 185r:196v, 199r:205v, 209r:215v, 219r:220v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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