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File 18/1919 Pt 2 ‘Persia: Expenditure payments for maintenance of Cossack Division’ [216r] (63/70)
The record is made up of 1 item (32 folios). It was created in 19 Nov 1920-18 Mar 1921. 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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reject it be arrived at before end of year. Refusal
or failure to take this step will be attended with the
consequences of which I have already more than once
warned you as the sequel of rejection.
There remains the question of financing the new
Government in the interval. His Majesty's Government
are unable to depart from their previous decision in
this respect, and Persian Government must find relief
in other quarters, ■ They have already received
£350,000 from Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and Financial
Adviser will endeavour, while in this country, to
obtain arrears of subsidy from same source. We can
not consider alternative of advance against future
loan. Persian Government have themselves declined
to touch existing loan, and cannot at the same time
exploit and profit by their own compunction.
I Cn the other hand, as British officers have taken
over temporary control of Cossack Division, it seems
not unreasonable that we should bear cost of re-
; organisation and maintenance, pending financial ad
justment with the Persian Government. This we are
willing to do*
It Is my duty to inform you at the same time that
a strong belief was expressed hy the Cabinet that
British Parliament, which has a very scant appreciation
of the intricacies of Persian politics, will he most
unlikely to vote for the continued maintenance of
British
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This part contains correspondence, reports, extracts from the War Cabinet, and minutes consisting of discussions between British officials on the Cossack Division [Persian Cossack Brigade] in Persia [Iran].
The item covers the following: extracts from the British Parliament regarding the subsidies for the Cossack Division in Persia; discussion of the reorganisation of the Division and the Persian Army, its cost and the situation under the new Government in Persia; the status of British troops in Persia; Russian presence in Persia; the Anglo-Persian Agreement and the financial and general situation in the country.
The principal correspondents are: Secretary of the Government of India; Foreign Office; British Legation, Tehran; and Lord Curzon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
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- File 18/1919 Pt 2 ‘Persia: Expenditure payments for maintenance of Cossack Division’
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- 185r:217v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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