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Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [167v] (334/442)
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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Turkey in circumstances which would not necessarily
imply association with Germany, and the need of such
assurance will appear to them all the more urgent when
we press them to sell us all their tanks and other heavy ^
war material.
.4r* The question of credits has been reduced to a
promise of ,f financial assistance on terns to be embodied
m a subsequent agreement”.
^ 1 have kept the Soviet Ambassador fully informed
out he has not attended the recent discussion for three
reasons.
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., , Hdvyig been empowered by his Government to sign
th§’treaty'as * drafted by the Foreign Office, he did not
i a 3 Goveriiment s clumsy counter
dratft Which sent to the Soviet Government as it was. He
however, had no objection to my trying to eliminate from
ohe»cpiurrer-draft everything essentially opposed to our
proposals.
f> : j,'• 'eif^itDns have been in French on the basis 1 *of'
the English and Persian texts, and the Ambassador knows"*
none oi these languages.
(c) The object of many of the more reasonable
amendments proposed by the Persian Government is to secure
lair treatment^from the Allied forces, and it would have been
impossible to discuss these in the presence of the Ambassador
+v } 0 o S ? x J rem ®ly sensitive to anything like criticism of
authorities, whose interference and depredations
the Persian Government would like to limit.
°! J *3-0 n0 ^ know that the Ambassador will venture to
transmit the Persian Government’s final proposals to his
Government, and I suggest that to secure agreement of the
ooviet ambassador to such amendments as you approve, would
be the best course.
7. ihe question of the terms on which buildings and
other improvements we may effect, shall be transferred to the
Persian Government after the war, is now left for insertion
m the separate agreement referred to [grp. undec. ? nara.S]
•iv^ telegram No 1108,„„ Nevertheless if g His Majesty’s^
favourable terras now, (preferably
valuable n^ 1 + 1 ™?? Va T e § ro P 2 rt y) it would be most
• u ' s - a °^ 1 t * 0 ^ lsa ovantages of the treaty for
o-pp + nc ^ Persian Government
^ K tin f al 5 ost no avenue, and that the country is
Russian urnnn^' a ? d S rf ar ; Th ® re are no si S ns that the
an y improvements beyond tinkering
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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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