مجموعة ٢٨\ ٨٥ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية التابعة للحكومة البريطانية." [ظ‎‎١‎٢‎٥] (٣٨٠/٢٥٢)

more and more to depend on oil. The rapid increase in the use of this
fuel, whether burned under boilers or more effectively consumed in
internal-combustion engines, has effe&ed a revolution in marine bunkering
methods, which the Company has been swift to meet.
Already the Anglo-Persian Oil Company has established more than forty
main bunkering installations on the shores of the British Isles, at the
principal Continental ports, as well as in the chief shipping centres of Asia,
Africa and Australia. The number is continually being increased. Complete
facilities have been provided at all these points to ensure adequate
reserves of fuel-oil and rapid service in its delivery to ships. The installa
tions are operated either dire&ly by the Company or through its local
distributing organisations and agents at the respe&ive ports.
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For the people of Great Britain the Anglo-Persian Oil Company has
opened up a new and incalculably rich supply of those petroleum produffs
which have come to be a vital faffor of national progress and comfort and
also of national safety. It has developed a new source of national wealth.
It has brought freedom from the domination of foreign interests. With its
independent sources of production and its complete and self-contained
organisation, it is a Stabilising faffor in a market where prices are so
often subjeff to violent fluctuations. The British motorist and the British
business man are reaping the benefit of this moderating influence.
To Persia, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company has meant a new era of
prosperity. The royalties it pays constitute the bulk of the national
revenues. Still larger are the amounts spent in labour and supplies. To
a large seCtion of the population it has given useful and profitable work
and better Standards of living. It has established hospitals and schools. In
a country where things move slowly and ancient tradition Still rigidly
holds sway, it has already wrought great and beneficial changes. And
it is only at the beginning of its work.
Through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, modern industry has come
to the ancient land where Daniel the Prophet lies buried and where his
tomb Stands at Susa, not far from Maidan-i-Naftun, to this day. In Persia
empires have risen and fallen, leaving only a tottering wall or a broken
Statue to mark the place where their Strongholds and temples have Stood.
The magic wand of modern industry caSts a spell far more potent and
probably far more lasting than theirs. It has released from deep beneath
the soil a flood which is bringing to Persia all the benefits of progress
and civilisation. It promises to restore to the land of Darius and Nadir
Shah, not the prosperity which they won by the sword in distant days,
but that better prosperity which is based on a genuine contribution to
the welfare and needs of the world.