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‘Confidential. Persia’ [505r] (59/112)
The record is made up of 1 file (56 folios). It was created in c 1904. It was written in English. 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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V
57
yet teen exchanged on this subject
between the Persian Government and the
xtussian Bank, so that this question might
eventually give rise to objections by the
latter of a geographical nature, which it
v ould not depend on the Persian Govern
ment to settle in one or other sense. Sir
A. Hardinge proposed that the word “ ex
clusively should be inserted after ,c de-
V’ , He unde rstood the meaning of
M. Naus reply to be that the Persian
government intended, as we did, under
the words “ Pars and the Gulf ” to exclude
customs of Southern Persia, but would not
answer for the view of the expression which
Bussia might take. In conversation M.
A aus had observed that in the event of
this question assuming a practical form,
it.would be settled between us and Bussia
without Persia having much say in it.
All that Persia could do was to state her
own intention, which was to adhere to the
declaration of 1897.
It remains to be seen whether the
Persian Government will officially adont
M. Naus* draft. 1
It may be mentioned that neither the
note of April 1899, referred to by Sir A.
Hardinge in his telegram of 4 th March]
nor that of January 19th, 1900, (alluded
to by M. Naus), from Sir M. Durand to
the Persian Government, is among our
iccords , so it is not possible to say how
far they justify the interpretation thus
put upon them. The whole history of the
events, however, would make it primd facie
very doubtful whether they can be fairly
construed to mean that Sir M. Durand used
the expression “ Ports of Pars ” in opposi
tion to the expression “ Ports of the
South with any intention of narrowing
the wide guarantee which was given in
October 1897.
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This part consists of a printed summary of British policy regarding Persia, from 1834 to 1904, featuring extracts from Foreign Office correspondence. Also included are extracts from speeches given in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs respectively, as published in The Times .
The summary is divided into sections. The contents page includes an introductory statement and a table of contents, which lists the sections as follows:
(1) The integrity of Persia
(2) Railways, tramways, roads, telegraphs in Southern Persia
(3) The customs of Southern Persia
(4) Seistan
(5) British interests in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
(6) The Sheikh of Mohammerah
(7) The new Persian tariff
(8) The acquisition by Russia of a Naval Station on the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
There is a handwritten note on the front of the document which states ‘This is not final copy’.
Notable correspondents include the following: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the British Minister at Tehran (Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, succeeded by Arthur Henry Hardinge); HM Chargé d'Affaires to Tehran (Robert Charles Kennedy; Cecil Arthur Spring Rice); HM Ambassador to Russia, St Petersburg (Sir Charles Stewart Scott); the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Count Karl Robert Nesselrode); the Shah of Persia, Nassir-ud-Din (Nasser Al-Din Shah Qajar); the Mushir-ed-Dowleh of Persia (Prime Minister to the Shah); the Russian Ambassador to London (Count Alexander Konstantinovich Benckendorff).
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The document is paginated and in page number order, and is arranged into sections on particular subjects.
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- ‘Confidential. Persia’
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- 476r:484v, 487v, 489r, 490v, 492r, 493r:494v, 495v:496r, 497r, 498r, 499r:501v, 502v:503r, 504v:505v, 507r:509v, 511r:514v, 515v:518r, 519v:520r, 522r:524r, 525r:527r, 528r:531v
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