File 200/1928 Pt 7 'Anglo-Persian Treaty Negotiations' [‎596r] (529/620)

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AB 1 nsve r ® : ' 0rte ' 1 ln ay telegra a So.6 of February
9th t0 the 0ov#B **» t m<Ua (repeated to you o.lO)
Teyaourtaohe ralaed the question of the i^adap Hallway
Rt lhe na of hiB ioraal return of a visit I had paid hla
on his arrival from Rurope. I made no cogent at the
2, On the following evening I attended a party
in hie honour at the Iren Club and eoae time otter aid-
night X left ny bridge table and went to the buffet,
where Hia Highness, who was standing with the Minister
for Foreign Affairs, pounced on me.
3. He began by saying that he hod just been
telling Feroughi of the representation which he had made
to me about the Railway and then went on to talk about
Anglo-Fereian relations in general and the Treaty
negotiations. Ye had been at the negotiations since
1927, he said, and it was really time they were conclud
ed, as they assuredly would be if His majesty's ' overn-
ment would make s real break with the pact in so far as
it constituted an encroachment on ersia’s sovereign
rights and would realise that tradition was not an end
in itself but had to be adapted to modern change oi
progress. I cordially .greed that respect for tradition
must
The Kight Honourable
Sir John biaon, 3 • 0 . Z . 1 *»
etc., etc , etc.,
The Foreign Office.