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File 1262/1915 Pt 2 'Persia: Financial assistance: The Moratorium' [273r] (309/424)
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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20 APR 1916
W.36431/16
J FOREIGN OFFICE,
Liarch 9th, 1916
I W"
| &40.000
CIO, 000
With reference to my letter of the 7th of
January last, relative to the financial assistance
now oeing given to the Persian Government, I am
directed by Secretary oir Edward Grey to transmit
to you, herewith, for the observations of the
Lords Conmissioners of his Majesty's treasury, a
copy of a letter from 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.
, relative
to the provision from Indian revenues of one half
of the Russian shares of these advances.
In regard to the point raised in the
penultimate paragraph of this letter, I am to
state that bir Edward Grey had already, in January
last, conailted His Majesty's Minister at Tehran
as to whether the arrears of the moratorium pay
ments should be calculated on the basis of monthly
instalments for seven or for eight months.
Mr. Marling had replied that the Persian
Government were certainly expecting the payment
to include the monthly payments for eight months
(viz. Two hundred and forty thousand pounds, not
lv«o hundred and ten thousand pounds) and d.ir E.
Grey considers that they would regard any
| C40.000
cio, ooo
diminution
Rie becretary
to the
Treasury.
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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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- 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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