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File 200/1928 Pt 9 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations: Treaty Negotiations' [‎16r] (36/1076)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (534 folios). It was created in 6 Sep 1933-8 Mar 1934. 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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technical breach of the treaty. Another possibility is that we should exempt Persian
cotton from the proposed consumption duty and take the risk that the Egyptian
^ Government would not complain of technical breach of the most-fayoured-nation
clause. Other imports of cotton come from East Africa and the United States of
America, which countries have no technical right of complaint.
12. As regards (e), our general conclusion is that this is, from the practical point
of view the line which ought eventually to be followed, but that it will be quite
useless to attempt negotiations unless Bhavnagar is made to feel that her position
is not unassailable. From this point of view action proposed in paragraph 11
will have some effect, but would probably not alone be effective unless we could also
indicate that His Majesty’s Government were prepared to challenge either the validity
of the obligation in the present conditions or the interpretation of the treaty hitherto
observed. . . 0 . . .. i n i
Therefore, we must have your views on these points, subject to tins, we snoulu
in any case propose, in the first place, to approach Bhavnagar for friendly settlement,
and we should make the points : first, if you agree, that we may have to challenge
their whole position; secondly, that a continuance of their diversion of our trade will
force us to circumvent their position by methods suggested in paragraph 1; thirdly,
that public opinion in India will not tolerate the increasing loss of revenue beyond
all reasonable limits, and that on this ground alone their position will, in practice,
become untenable. As a matter of common sense, they may perhaps recognise this.
13 Ju order to make our statement of case in relation to Kathiawar complete,
we must add that, apart from Bhavnagar danger, we feel we cannot delay longer effort
to check the methods of appraisement at other Kathiawar ports.
We feel quite certain from evidence received that customs regulations are not
being administered with same accuracy and severity as in Bombay, and that, with
the present high duties, very substantial advantages are secured by importers. We
consider that only effective action is to insist on declaration of value and appraise
ment at land customs line instead of present practice of passing goods on certificate
of payment of duty at ports. We should propose before taking this step to confer
with States concerned, and we should take this occasion to propose some new arrange
ment with States other than Nawanagar, whose case, like that of Bhavnagar, must be
dealt with separately.
There will, of course, be differences as between various other States, the case of
Baroda in particular raising special issues.
14. We recognise we have raised very difficult issues which will require careful
consideration. In view, however, of rapidity of recent developments and Bhavnagar’s
plans for further expenditure, we should be most grateful if you could deal with them
urgently and, in any case, if you could give us very early reply to paragraph 11.

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Content

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 two governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues.

The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials, but it also contains copies a limited amount of correspondence that was exchanged between British and Persian Government officials, some of which is in French.

In addition to this correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:

  • 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached in July 1933' (folios 390-463)
  • 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached on October 10th, 1933' (folios 309-389)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Minutes of the Fifth Meeting of the Sub-Committee held in the Room of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at the House of Commons, on Tuesday, November 28th, 1933, at 3.0 p.m.' (folios 223-238)
  • 'Proposed Anglo-Persian General Treaty. Position reached on November 30th, 1933' (folios 131-214)
  • Foreign Office Memorandum, 1934 'Proposed Instructions to His Majesty's Minister at Tehran Regarding the Negotiations with the Persian Government for a General Treaty' (folio 62)
  • 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Ministerial Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Draft Minutes of the Sixth Meeting of the Sub-Committee held at the Foreign Office on Monday, January 22nd, 1934, at 3.0 p.m.' (folios 52-58).

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.

Extent and format
1 volume (534 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.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 536; 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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English and French in Latin script
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