Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [‎171v] (342/442)

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S) To replace many of the slaims dealing with Allied
_v/hicn were scattered about [grp„undec:? the reply] I
/ thar we conclude the aereemenr. ^nVftTincr nn r.hn rv.-i<=> T
... ,( 6 ) I * g v i?w of the vigilance of the newly liberated
Majlis the Persian Government wish to insert in Article 9
so me p hrase indicating the intention to submit the treatv.&v *Hnvu-U.
^rpsrre«^rr^f^was amended to read "on signature and sh£l be
ratified according to the constitutional authority of the
respective parties^ "
(7) One Article 7 v/as replaced in the Persian reply by nine
refusals, particularly one proposing that
The angro Iranian Oil Company s payments to the Persian Govern*-
# ment should, ^.e'maintained at 4 million pounds a year until the
the end of the *war 0 I have said that the Article must be
• M«epted-as -m our draft but that if you permit I will send
Minister for Pcgreign Affairs a letter designed to influence
puol 10 ?«opi^©n,*-reminding him .hat only from Allied au.i
countries can Persia obtain the wheat sugar and
other things she needs and explaining what we have done, are
doing and are planning to do*
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suggest that we conclude the agreement covering on the one hand
su ?, n as exe niption oi military stores from customs
duty, and on the other, the obligation of the forces to nay
for food required, transport hired etco This would be on the
model of similar arrangements with both Egypt and Iraq 0
(9) Persian Government have little to make the treaty
palatable to the people, who are terrified lest they be
dragged into the war. There are two things which I think
would be well worth doing:
nhttl 0 make th ® Persian Government a loa’ of not less than
twh k 0 °? ® asy ' te £ ms on condition that bread and sugar
+v? ou h k e S ?P^- everywhere in Persia at prices not exceeding
those prevailing at the time of the occupation. Persian
Government are very short of money owing* to the almost
caSleTby^e in §ocS P atiorr nUe ^ & * * * ° f the dis °^nisation
(b) State now on what terms, which should be as generous
as possible i His Majesty's Government would be prepared to
transfer to ohe Persian Government at the end of the war-
;f^ 0 I?? en P-, in conu ? unications ' buil dings etc., which have
of e ?d f ^^ ed ’ n °n?yucted etc., for our own purposes. In view
of the terms on which we eventually had to transfer the Jr-aqi
railways to the Iraqi Government I suggest that it would
+n o!y d + 0 m ?u ge f ture i- whi< ; h W0llld ? os ^ us little in the end
agroe .o .he transfer oi such buildings and improvements gratis.
,,. 1 hope it will be realised that the treaty as it
want ' 13 ff V -yp P ?^ la ll l tle th y it wants and much it does not
/.ant, ±i v/e wish, on the one hand, to have a willing instead of
a sullen Government to work with, and on the other to get some 1
bv°air is°sfil t T ie nn G pSf ;e i am ? ng + whoin i German P ro P a g a uda elpecially '*
consiL^tfnPL 5 f fu h I str ° n gly urge that favourable
consideration bo given to the above proposals.
[Repeated to Kuibyshev under Foreign Office No. 1111 -
groups' 1 ]^ C0pie3 wil1 be issue( i °n receipt of the omitted