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'File 82/34 II (F 94) APOC Concession' [‎4r] (22/362)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (180 folios). It was created in 28 Jan 1933-13 Jul 1939. It was written in English and French. 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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are well wora# except for tfct® following ©tateamti
one of the 'mtters la dispute between the crsiaa
(iovernment and the Gompmyn&a been the restriction of
output of oil i the Company aa ioiowl edged thie but said
that in virtue of the world narfeet for oil it waa not in
the interesta of Persia to expand output at preaent. She
i eraian ooverasent in reply aalced the (jueation "ihy, in
that eaae, are you expanding your production in Vcnesuela?*
The oo^aay were uaahle to reply.
7, The ^.hafaq" of the same date eontaina a
long article by an anoaymouB deputy, ridiculing the
stateaeata eoatained in the "iuaily mil" article of the
28th Seceaber, Mild to be from the pea of a apecial
correapoadent sent to study the aituation of the ^agio-
Persian Oil Ooap&ny on the apot. The points specially
singled out for ridicule are the following:^) the statement
that twenty aeren thouaand eaployees of the Anglo- Persian
Oil Coapany would auoh rather serr® the Coapeny than their
own gowernaent; (b) the acocmnt of the refusal of the
Persian Governaent to allow the performance of a oertaia
play at the olub of the Coapanyi (c) the account of the
refusal to deliwer letters to the Gonsul-Qeneral, Su shire,
if they are aarSted 'eiplomstio a«f*ee«atatlwe'| (d) the
statement that all His iiajesty's Government 's efforts to
establish good relations end in misunderstandings and are
interpreted as signs of weainesa on the part of His Majesty'i
Gowernaent. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. of the ""Shafat* article, in
respect of (d), askis "What efforts have the British
Governaent made to collabernte with the Persian So*erna«»t 'i ^
"What Persian considers the British Oorernment to be weak",
and •men hare we claimed to be superior to cthersV*. In
conclusion, the writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. repeats the well-too wn argument
/that

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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, His Majesty's Consul at Geneva (in French), the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Bushire and Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives in regard to the settling of the dispute between Britain and Persia at the League of Nations, due to the cancellation of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession. Subjects also include the negotiations for a new concession with APOC and the definition of the territorial waters for the new concession area. The volume also includes newspaper cuttings on the subject, from The Times .

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1 volume (180 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 194-198). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.

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The foliation is written in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, 2-17; then 18 and 18A; 19-21; 22 and 22A; 23-133; 134 and 134A and carries on until 203, which is the last number given, on the inside of the back cover of the volume. Some of the folios have been paginated in error, which means that the following numbers are missing from the foliation sequence: f. 48; f. 50; f. 52; f. 54; f. 56; f. 58; f. 60; f. 62; f. 64; f. 72; f. 74; f. 76; f. 80; f. 82; f. 101; ff. 103-105; f. 107; f. 109; f. 111; f. 113; f. 115; f. 117; f. 119; f. 121; f. 123; f. 125; f. 132; f. 138; f. 144.

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