مجموعة ٢٩/ ٧٤ "إعادة تنظيم الخدمة القنصلية في بلاد فارس: إنشاء استراحة في شيراز؛ الترتيبات في أصفهان" [و‎‎٣‎٩‎٢] (٩٥٦/٧٨٥)

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event of its disposal it will be necessary to rent a
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small resthouse at Isfahan for the use of a Visiting
Consular Officer. (This will he the case whether
Isfahan is absorbed by Tehran or made subordinate to
Shiraz, for in the former event visits three or four
times a year by an officer of consular standing will
presumably be no less necessary than in thelatter).
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The house appears to be the property of the Foreign
Office (as the Shiraz house is of the Government of
India). Subject to confirmation of this assumption,
(which is being checked) we should have no interest
in the sale proceeds.
4. As regards the proposal to raise Ahwaz to a
Consul ate-General, there is, as Mr. Walton points out
In his minute on P.Z.3S06/33, considerable force in
the Foreign Office arguments and Ido not think that
they are altogether disposed of by the counter
arguments adduced by the Resident and the Government
of India. On the other hand, this is, as we know, a
point on which the Resident feels strongly, and our
general principle being to endeavour so far as
possible to concentrate responsibility in the Gulf in
his hands, we might, I think, at any rate in the first
instance , support the proposals of Colonel Fowle and
the Government of India. Ah additional reason for
doing so, from our point of view, is that if we are
obliged to move the Resident’s headquarters from
Bushire, the Foreign Office are likely to urge strongly
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that the Consul-General Ahwaz shall become
responsible for Bushire and Bunder Abbas. In the
interest of retaining the Resident as the chief
coordinating authority in the Gulf and preserving for
him some degree of close liaison and control in
South Persia, we had hitherto been anxious to secure
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