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Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [‎110r] (219/442)

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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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[This telegram is of particular secrecy and should he
retained hy the authorised recipient and not passed on.]
[CYPHER]
W 11 R CABINET DISTRIBUTION.
PROM: PERSIA.
FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
Sir R. Bullard
No. 1590
29th December, 1941 0
Repeated to India NodllS
D. 7.30 p.m. 29th December, 1941.
R. 9.45 a.m. 30th December, 1941.
BfivEEDIATE.
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W) ClA.
Please pass Kuibyshev No. 378.
My immediately preceding telegram, ^-o^ Ji
1. Following is summary of my communication to the
President [? group omitted] days ago.
2. In spite of Minister for Foreign Affairs' latest
assurances, action has not been taken, and we are as far as
ever from signature. Persian Government surely cannot realise
the effect on His Majesty's Government of these delays.
Communications have been made to the Foreign Office on the
strength of successive assurances by Persian officials as to
early signature and the Foreign Office seeing new reasons for
delay advanced, could not but regard them as pretexts v/hile
public opinion not only in Great Britain feels as Foreign
Office must feel, that Persian Government are not taking the
question seriously.
3. Persian constitutional procedure cannot be so rigid
that v/ay out cannot be found, or such that the special sessions
of Parliament cannot be called.
4. On the signature there arc certain agreements to be
negotiated which will bring serious economic benefits to Persia.
Do Persians intend to introduce same delays into those
negotiations ? We will do.all we can [group undec.: ? to]
[group undec.: ? speed] them up but neither v/e nor the Soviet
authorities are likely to be encouraged to do so by sorry
spectacle of the present delays and unconvincing excuses.
5. Finally for the information of His Majesty* s Government
a plain answer to a plain question is requested. Assuming the
Persian Government really wish the Treaty, on what date will it
be ready for signature.
[Repeated to Kuibyshev under Foreign Office No. 381.]
A .

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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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