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File 200/1928 Pt 10 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty Negotiations' [5v] (11/868)
The record is made up of 1 volume (432 folios). It was created in 24 Jan 1934-5 Aug 1936. 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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difficulties, but these are common to the traders of most countries except Germany
and Russia, which have special agreements with the Persian Government, and,
on the other side of the picture, an important Government company is seeking to
become agent for Imperial Chemical Industries for Government business.
4. On the major question of the Perso-Iraqi frontier dispute, by the middle
of January the Persian Government had abandoned their objection to His 4 ^
Majesty’s Government participating in the negotiation and signature of a
tripartite convention for controlling the Shatt-el-Arab, and had declared them
selves ready to agree to British participation provided that the Iraqi Government
proposed it to them. The Persians have argued that it is clearly for the country
presently occupying the river, and allied to the British, to make the proposal; it
is possible that they fear Soviet resentment were they themselves to take the
initiative. Three months have passed and the Persian Government adhere to
this position. Our own declarations seem effectually to have forestalled any
disposition to hold His Majesty’s Government’s desire to participate in a tripartite
convention responsible for the failure hitherto to reach agreement on the frontier
question generally. Seeing motes more readily than beams, the Persians’ criticism
would rather be that His Majesty’s Government have interpreted in a rigid,
niggardly and even egotistic spirit Sir R. Clive’s promise to Teymourtache in 1929
that His Majesty’s Government would give their good offices towards the
remedying of Persia’s practical difficulties on the Shatt-el-Arab. The men about
the Shah including, I have gathered, the Turkish Ambassador with whom His
Majesty is specially intimate, have blamed His Majesty’s Government for the
deadlock. His Majesty’s inaccessibility makes it difficult to put the other side of
the picture to him, but I incline to doubt whether his penetrating mind has
seriously been led astray.
5. For the rest, the relations between His Majesty’s Legation and the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs are reasonably good. A revived and seemingly
gratuitous offensive against the dissemination outside the Legation of the British
official wireless news (and the German also) has been conducted without acrimony
and may, I hope, be tided over.
6 . The social feature of the last quarter has been the unveiling campaign,
which the Shah supervised personally and which now seems to have achieved
success but at a price of lacerating many feelings. Some experienced judges
believe that by this and other measures the Shah is storing up after his death a
fierce reaction and that this may involve His Majesty’s Legation, popularly held
responsible for the Pahlevi regime. On the other hand, British Indian subjects
have continued comparatively unmolested to wear the dress they please, and this
may have led the common people to made deductions not unfavourable to the
British. In the light of the above, there may even be advantage in the Shah
being a little remote from His Majesty’s Legation and choosing his closest
confidante from another mission. Rumours, moreover, persist of serious
indignation among army officers at their treatment by the Shah.
7. In world affairs the Persian Government has remained anti-Italian. It
is the resolute moves of the other European dictator that are more likely to
influence the Shah. Signs are not wanting, and will be discussed in a later
despatch, of a successful revival of enterprise on the part of Germany. For the
moment, however, the Shah’s eyes are likely to be fixed on Egypt, where a young
king in his teens succeeds an elderly father.
8 . I am sending copies of this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India, and to His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad, No. 35.
I have, &c.
NEVILE BUTLER.
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This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between the Persian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the British and Persian [Iranian] governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues including the status of Basidu.
In addition to correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:
- 'Speech by His Imperial Majesty the Shah at the Majlis on the Day of its Reopening for the Tenth term, Khordad 5, 1314 June 6,1935); (folio 34)
- 'Memorandum by Mr. Eden upon a Conversation at Geneva on May 22, 1935, with M. Kazemi, the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, respecting Anglo-Persian relations' (folio 45)
- 'Anglo-Persian Relations. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen's conversation with Persian Minister.' (folios 119-122)
- 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee held at No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1. on Thursday, 25th October, 1934, at 3.30 p.m.' (folios 130-137)
- 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of the Thirty-fifth meeting of the Sub-Committee, held at No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, S.W.1., on Friday, October 12th, 1934, at 3,30 p.m.' (folios 151-168)
- 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Bahrein. Memorandum by Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.' (folio 169)
- 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee held in the Room of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, House of Commons, S.W.1, on Monday, June 11th, 1934, at 4.0 p.m.' (folios 261-276)
- 'Relations with Persia. Admiralty Memorandum', 1934 (folios 284-289)
- 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Persian Policy. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for India', 1934 (folios 290-291)
- 'Persia. Memorandum by Sir R. Vansittart' Foreign Office, 1934 (folios 316-317)
- 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of a meeting of the Sub-Committee held in Conference Room 'A', No. 2, Whitehall Gardens, SW1, on Friday, May 4th, 1934, at 3.45 p.m.' (folios 355-378)
- 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached on January 17, 1934' (folios 417-431).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 volume (432 folios)
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The subject 200 (Anglo-Persian Treaty Negotiations) consists of eight volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/1250-1257. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6 and 7 comprising the fifth volume, and parts 8, 9 and 10 comprising one volume each.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 433; 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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- File 200/1928 Pt 10 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty Negotiations'
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- front, front-i, 2r:33v, 35r:102v, 105r:249v, 251r:433v, back
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