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File 1262/1915 Pt 2 'Persia: Financial assistance: The Moratorium' [177r] (117/424)
The record is made up of 1 item (212 folios). It was created in 8 Jan 1916-26 Nov 1917. It was written in English and French. 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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f o;jgleur de Slither tJ'ough't tliat/ it* waa uzineceagaary an tl^e -fc’
t}:ree g^entleiuen ware quite eware of tJ:e duties axp^ otad
of t!'en> and they oould be perfectly well be- trusted
to carry them out * I therefore did not preas the matter
Vut I told Honnieur de Stter^and he agreed, that In my
view neither *fr Buson nor Honsleur ’Cod&le were placed
on the oomrnl^slon to represent the Interests of tlie
Imperial Bank of Persia and the Panque d’i&SGompbe respect 1ve
ly # but merely as gentlemen whose knowledge of finance
and aoquantelnoe with Persia would prove of service In
ensuring proper use being made of the money. It was also
agreed upon between us, and the Jommlsslon Itself passed
a resolution to this effect, that the use to which, the
money at its disposal was to be put should be rigidly
confined to ti e object of keeping the general
exlmlnl strati on of the country on Its le $ by paying the
pressing arrears of salary to the officials of the various
deportments and of the Court, and that until the total
amount due for this purpose had been ascertained and It
was seen that
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Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda concerning financial assistance, in the form of a moratorium on debt payments, given to the Government of Persia by the governments of Britain and Russia. The papers form part of the discussion of a number of related matters, including:
- The practicalities of making back payments to Persia for loan repayments made during the period of the moratorium
- The inability of the Russian Government to meet their share of payments
- The formation in early 1916 of an Anglo-Russian Financial Commission within the Persian Government to oversee financial matters.
The papers include six-monthly reports produced by the Anglo-Russian Financial Commission from August 1916 to October 1917.
The correspondence is principally between officials at the 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. and Foreign Office but further correspondence, usually included as enclosures, comes from officials at the Colonial Office, Treasury, British Legation in Tehran, and the Governments of Russia and Persia.
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- Title
- File 1262/1915 Pt 2 'Persia: Financial assistance: The Moratorium'
- Pages
- 119r:181v, 188r:202v, 206r:246v, 248r:250v, 252r:322v, 324r:330v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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