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Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [153r] (305/442)
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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POLITICAL DISTRIBUTION.
FRCM PERSIA.
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FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
Sir R. Bullard, D. 5.00 p.n. 15th November, 1941.
No.1145.
15th November, 1941. R» 11.40 p.m. 15th November, 1941*
Repeated to Government of India No. 944,
Kuibyshev,'
Cairo,
Bagdad,
Angora,
MOST IMMEDIATE.
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Your telegrams Nos, 1021, 1022 and 1026,
After preliminary talk with Minister for Foreign"Arfair?
I send the following observations:
Article No. 5 (1). I suspect that the alternative which
you prefer should be acceptable but the Minister for Foreign
Affairs asks whether we could substitute ‘’defend” for ’’protect”
as being more definite in the Persian equivalent. I recommend
Article 4 (2). I recommend replacement of ’’adjustment” by
”arrangements” which not only goes better into Persian but
avoids the suggestion that the Persian Government might have
to make payments.
Article 5 as now drafted is even less favourable to Persia
than before. As it stood, the conclusion of peace was at #
least to have been the signal for the departure of the allied
troops, if that event occurred within a year from *the armistice*
and the troops had not already gone; now the year might run.
from the conclusion of peace, I suggest return to the wording
given in your telegram No. 785 but with reduction of the period
from one year to six months at* the outside. How could Persian
Government explain to their assailant [grp.omitted ? s that]
allied troops which occupied the country in a week might take a
year to leave? Making all allowances for the difficulties which
might attend the evacuation, I consider that political consid
erations require reduction of the period to the lowest possible
limit. We must realise that the mention of one year would
justify some of the worst suspicions which the talk of a treaty
has aroused here, and that retention of the Russians in Persia,
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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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- Title
- Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’
- Pages
- 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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