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‘Confidential. Persia’ [530r] (109/112)
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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Proceeding
acquiring a naval base in the Persian
Gulf:—
Thb Marquis op Lansdowne to Sir C. Scott.
No. 112.
Foreign Office, 6th May 1903.
The Russian Ambassador observed to me to
day that he had read, with interest the statement
which I had made in the Houtee of Lords last
night on the subject of British interests in Persia.
He saw nothing in that statement to which ex
ception could be taken. His Excellency said that
1 had not mentioned Russia, although I probably
had Russia in my mind: that power, however,
had no idea of establishing a naval base in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
I replied that I was under the impression
that my speech did not contain much that was
new, and that I had merely reaffirmed propositions
which had on previous occasions been made or
implied on behalf of the British Government, I
had certainly never heard that Russia or any
other power contemplated the acquisition of a na
val base in the Gulf, but, as His Excellency
was aware, there were many people who could
not be persuaded that she had not such design*. ”
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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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- 1 file (56 folios)
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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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- Title
- ‘Confidential. Persia’
- Pages
- 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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