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File 200/1928 Pt 10 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty Negotiations' [251r] (502/868)
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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a firm and unshakable basis. At any time that I feel that the foundation and
basis of the matter will be such as mentioned above, I shall be most willingly
prepared to enter into negotiations on the matter.
Yours sincerely,
Enclosure 3 in No. 1.
Draft Note to Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
My dear Minister,
I HAVE duly received your letter of the 23rd Ordibehesht (13th May).
2. I naturally did not expect your Excellency's subordinates or other
departments of the Imperial Government to be able to produce evidence that in
the past they had affixed the Imperial visa to passports bearing a mention of
Bahrein. That I am myself able to do. What I did do in the course of my two
conversations with your Excellency was to suggest to your Excellency that until
last summer a Persian visa was not refused because a passport bore a mention of
Bahrein. In any case, the matter is of no great importance, and I only raised it
with your Excellency in a most informal and friendly manner because I wished to
ensure that purely routine matters should be handled smoothly.
3. With regard to the instructions which I stated to have been issued to the
Imperial consulate (at Basra), I will say that I do not understand in what respects
the case is not quite clear to you. The passage in my letter to which you refer
reproduced the sense of a telegram dated the 14th April from His Majesty’s
Ambassador at Bagdad. That telegram was textually as follows: “Persian
consulate have now received definite instructions to refuse visas for Persia in any
shape or form unless endorsements or visas for Bahrein or Koweit are deleted
from passports. They are also prevented from issuing special travel permits
hitherto granted in lieu of normal visa.” I presume that at some date shortly prior
to the 14th April instructions bearing on this matter were issued to the Imperial
consulate at Bagdad.
4. With regard to Koweit, I cannot accept your Excellency’s statement that
there was a “ misunderstanding,” and I quite definitely maintain the statement
on that subject m my letter of the 21st April (1st Ordibehesht) to be an entirely
accurate account of our conversation.
5. The final passages of your Excellency’s letter deal with the question of
the general treaty. I must confess that I do not in the least understand to what
the words “equality of both parties and the observance of real reciprocitv
between the contracting parties ” ( insert Persian ) refer. It is
desirable that I should understand, in order that I may explain the position to my
Government. It is presumably within your Excellency’s recollection that when
His Imperial Majesty the Shah was pleased to receive me in December last
(Azar-Dey 1312), he expressed the wish that negotiations for the conclusion of
the general treaty be resumed. Shortly after the audience (to be precise, on
( . )), your Excellency told me that you wished to
embark on those negotiations in the immediate future. I have more than once
reverted to the matter, but have failed to obtain any response from vour
Excellency.
6. It is outside my province to seek to dictate to the Imperial Government;
but it is my obvious duty to ascertain from your Excellencv and report to His
Majesty’s Government the policy and wishes*of the Imperial Government in so
far as they affect the relations between our respective countries.
7. I shall therefore be obliged if your Excellency will inform me of the views
of the Imperial Government and expound to me, if by any chance those views have
changed since December last (Azar-Dey 1312), the facts governing the decision
which has been taken.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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