File 200/1928 Pt 8 'Anglo-Persian Negotiations' [‎161r] (326/1096)

THIS POCUMEMT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
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PERSIA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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~ "1 l_~Jl>ecejnber 20, 1932.
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1933 Section 4.
No. 1.
Mr. Hoare to Sir John Simon. — (Received December 20 )
(No. 514.)
Sir
TTri rp i t n | . Tehran, December 3, 1932
, v reference to the opening paragraph of my despatch No 505 of the
30th November, I have the honour to inform you that the resident director of
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, acting on the instructions of his board in
London, replied on the 29th November to the Minister of Finance’s letter of the
27tn November His letter denied that the company had ever violated the terms
°. l ' e j Arcy Concession, and declared that the company could not recognise the
right of the Persian Government to cancel that concession. It also dealt with
the argument that the concession was invalid because it was granted nrior to
le establishment of the Constitution, and refuted the accusation that the
company had never taken any steps to meet the views of the Persian Government
i the subject of revision. It ended by expressing the hope that the Persian
Government would immediately withdraw their announcement
. t 2 ' ( J , he . ls r t > er of F ' 1 , lance replied on the 1st December in a brief letter
stating that the Persian Government did not accept any of the company’s
inioree S ° r eXpIanatlons and that the cancellation of the' concession remaTned
■ , On the previous day, the 30th November, the Minister of Finance had
i o med Mr Jacks that on account of the cancellation of the concession the post
>1 Impenal Commissioner had been abolished and the services of Mirza Eissa
m T i FaiZ < lspensed w ' t, , L Mlr za Mustapha Khan Fateh, the head of the
/ ir ,/' ln ° OI Danisation ot the company in Tehran, subsequently took the Minister
of Finance privately to task for this callous treatment of his representative
Per-sGn 6 / * 1 ' explained as s ? on as th e cancellation had been announced, the
■Gs, Kh G r!? ent r a< a en ^ llls tructions to Eissa Khan to return to Persia
therefo^ l" d h n d r ® plled . flat ^ declining to do so, and the Government had
nereloie had no alternative but to dismiss him.
Minimai; 1 ' 6 sak ’ 6 ‘i d convenience, I enclose herewith a translation of the
Minister of Finance s letter of the 27th November, although a copy also forms
etter t/Th ^ Na 5° 5 Copies ’ or ‘canslalions, of Mr. JacWs
SOthVl^! 29tF Noycmber and the Minister of Finance’s letter of the
ill thp-A i »i°' and 16 December are also enclosed.! 1 ) The Persian texts of
all these letters are on record in His Majesty’s Legation.
Governm / e, / <pn n a T < ' opv this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the
Persian t ’nlf f . ["u 3 / No - , 2 .t 3 ^ the Honourable the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the
(No ISI'i Dn 1 f fn usll ! re ^ 0 -' Ma .i est y’ s Ambassador at Bagdad
( 1 N 0 . 121), and to the acting British consul, Ahwaz (No. 86).
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
(') Not printed.
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