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File 1262/1915 Pt 2 'Persia: Financial assistance: The Moratorium' [179r] (121/424)
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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the nixed Financial Commisnion, I should be obliged £
tc put then? forward and a very substantial gum would
thus be diverted from the purpose 5 intended by our Govern
; •/ ments. Monsieur de iStter entirely concurred in my view
and he requested If. Mod&le not to push the claim,
j which was accordingly dropped .
The second case Is a claim by Prince Shoa-es
Sultaneh for arrears of pension to the amount of Ts :
Ts 13,000
but as His Imperial Highness had borrowed this sum from the
Panque d'Sscompte and had deposited the
pay orders with the
Bank as security for the loan It was virtually a claim
by the Bank. Monsieur again agreed with me that the claim
, ' WaS not a proper ona to be paid by the Commission , and
, told v. ’fodftle that such, was his opinion with the result
t)-t when It again came up for discussion It was shelved.
as I hoped for gecd^.At a subsequent meeting of the Commiss—
n^by reference to the Ministry of Finance on a
Pol he reply from the latter having been
meantime received, the claim was again brought forward
o„. the x resident of the Commission and passed with the
single
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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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