‏"ملخص الأحداث والتدابير الرئيسية التي اتخذها سمو نائب الملك اللورد كرزون من كيدلستون، نائب الملك والحاكم العام للهند في إدارة الخارجية. ‏I‏. يناير ١٨٩٩-أبريل ١٩٠٤. ‏II‏. ديسمبر ١٩٠٤-نوفمبر ١٩٠٥. المجلد IV. بلاد فارس والخليج الفارسي." [و‎‎٨‎٥] (٣٨٤/١٧٤)

Government. The result was that Indian interests were inadequately represented
at Tehran. The position was anomalous. India supplied 9 out of 14 Consulates
with officers; half the entire charges of British representation were met from
Indian funds; Persian and Indian frontiers were now for a long distance
coterminous and political and commercial interests were daily increasing. The
presence at Tehran of an officer from the Indian Political Department
familiar with the views of the Government of India and with India’s Com
mercial needs therefore rested on a stronger basis than when it was advocated
by Lords Northbrook and Lytton. The views of His Majesty’s Minister at
Tehran on this proposal were requested before addressing the Secretary of State
but no reply had been received before Lord Curzon left India.
16 The question of efficient personnel is closely connected with
Proposed special-consular service for the question of extending British re-
Persia. presentation in Persia. No uniform
svstem. existed for filling. Consular appointments in Persia or for the
training of junior officers to fill such appointments. Various schemes were
su^ested with a view to placing matters on a better footing. A plan
winch was seriously considered and laid before the Secretary of State in Octo
ber 1902 proposed that a special Consular service should be instituted for Persia,
the Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia. The scheme provided for raising the Moh-
a turner ah Vice-Consulate to a Consulate and the native agencies at Kerman-
shah and Shiraz to Vice Consulates and for the reduction of the llesht
Consulate to a Vice-Consulate. The appointments of Consul-General at
Bushire, Meshed and Baghdad, and Consul in Seistan and at Kerman, it-
w as proposed, should continue to be reserved for officers of the Political
ment of the Government of India, the rest of the posts, Ispahan and labriz
(Consuls-General) and Mohammerah and Basrah (Consulates) - and thev ice-
Qonsulates at Resht, Bushire, Tehran, Bunder Abbas, Bahrein, Kermanshah
and Shiraz, being filled by recruitment from the special service.
The officers appointed to the service would he recruited partly in England
and partly in India either by examination or nomination. An alternative
plan was also proposed, viz. % the formation of a Persian section of le
Levant Consular Service. The Special Persian service being considered too small
to offer sufficient inducement to competent officers, the plan of filling certain pos.s
bv officers of the Indian Government and others by officers of the foreign Office
w as eventually adopted. The London Foreign Office concurred as regards
raisin- the status of Mohammerah and pointed out that the proposed reduction
as regards Resht had already been effected. There was, however, .difference
of opinion as to the division of posts between the Foreign Office and the Indian
service. As a special case the Foreign Office agreed to appoint a \ ice-Consui
from the Levant i Service to Bushire but were not desirous of taking over any
more unhealthy posts in addition to Basrah, which went over to qhe'-Imperial
Government in 1898, and they further considered it desirable to leave Bahrein
and Bunder Abbas to be manned by Indian officers and to take over Shiraz and
also Baghdad if the Government of India considered the transfer desirable.
Lord Curzon was not entirely in accord with-these suggestions and the follow
ing telegraphic correspondence passed on the subject:
To Secretary of State, dated the 1st June 1903.
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