ملف ١٩٢٨/٢٠٠ الجزء ٥ "بلاد فارس: العلاقات الأنجلو-فارسية، مفاوضات بشأن المعاهدة" [و‎‎١‎٢] (١١٣٢/٢٨)

oonnexiono He could not help thinMngj, however^ that to raise
it in the present connexion would he bad policy from the
Admiralty point of vieWo 'If we failed^ we should almost
certainly precipitate a crisis regarding HenJam^ and should be
left with neither HenJem nor the air route*
12o In reply to enquiries from the Admiralty Representati^e
MPo Rendel said that it was difficult to estimate the importance
attached by the Persians to the re-opening' of the Busdap Railway®
They might regard it as a matter of merely local interest* It
was quite possible that they would not he prepared to giire us
anything in return® In any ease* they would be careful not t©
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let it appear that they attached special importance to it®
15a The AIR TOXSTRY RFPRT r SlIHT/' TXV1SS in reply to questions
said that the Air Ministry did not consider Henjam of importance
either from the point of view of military or of civil aviation®
The Air Ministry were strongly in favour of the Foreign Office
propo sal a®
14 o 0 ap t a in 131G-HAM said that the strongest argument
against raising the Hen jam question in the present connexion
seemed, to toe that in the event of failure we should prejudice our
position® He suggested* however* that at last we had got a
factor to force the Persians into the open® Hitherto * it had
paid them to procrastinate® Might it not toe best to wait until
they approached us again begging us to re-open the railway? If
we attempted the bargain now proposed should we not fee throwing
away a bargaining asset which might toe of greater use to us later
on if the general negotiations should toe re-opened?
15® Mm BA XTER said that* apart from the dangers of Persian
retaliation* the railway might well toe a wasting asset® In a
short time the Persians would probably have made other arrange
ments* and would not then feel the re-opening of the railway to