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Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [144r] (287/442)
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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OUTWARD TELEGRAM
^ This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government, and should be
kept under Look and Key.]
(E /34)
[CYPHER]
POLITICAL DISTRIBU TION.
TO : PERSIA .
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO TEHRAN,
D. 2*30 a.m*, 19th November, 1941.
No. 1054.
19th November, 1941.
Repeated to " " " ^ dia No. 14875
SAVING.
3 3 3
IMPORTANT.
My telegram No. 1042 [of November 18th: proposed
Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty],
Persian Minister informed me November 19th that while
his Government were in principle in favour of the Treaty,
they were much exercised by the terms of our proposals.
It would be a misfortune, he thought, if this Government
were compelled to resign and Majlis might not approve
the terms. The Minister asked in particular whether we
could not agree more explicitly to Persia having a place
at the peace conference and above all whether we could not
improve Article 7 regarding economic help.
2. I told the Minister that I was sorry I could
not meet him on either of these points. As regards the
peace conference it was impossible to go further than I
was proposing, since I could not visualise the circumstances
in which peace would eventually be made.
3. As regards financial help I could not accept that
the Persian Government were in difficulty there. They
had considerable sterling balances available in this country
which were at present frozen. These they would be able to
use as soon as the Treaty was signed. I understood that
Persian assets in the United States were now estimated at
'll million dollars. I suggested that what Persia needed
was not money, but gooes, ¥e were doing our best to help
in this and were shipping further supplies of wheat to
Persia^before the end of the year. The Minister remarked
thathis Government had not mentioned food in their telegram
to him. I replied that this was none the less a most
serious matter that confronted Persia. Her people were
very short of food and we were trying to help them in this
as in other matters.
4. Broadly the choice for Persia was clear. If she
became an ally she would be in the same category as Egypt,
Iraq, and Turkey, to all of whom we were sending supplies v
and all of whom we had helped as far as we could in respect
of their export trade. If, however, Persia was not an ally,
she/
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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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