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'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession' [106] (197/436)
The record is made up of 1 volume (221 folios). It was created in 21 Oct 1932-26 Jan 1933. It was written in English. 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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The Chairman of the Company, while in Tehran in
1929, in the course of the negotiations which then took
place, warned the Persian Government's rep resent at iv^^
that he foresaw that conditions in the oil industry might
change for the worse, but at that time the Persian Govern
ment's representatives were unwilling to visualise the
possibility of the profits of the Company being reduced,
and therewith the Persian Government's royalties.
The heavy fall in profits in 1931 suffered by the Com
pany in common with all other large oil undertakings, of
which the Persian Government's representatives had in
1931 and in 1932 been forewarned, was certainly most
unfortunate, but it did not affect adversely the Persian
Government alone, nor does it afford any justification for
the claim of the Persian Government that it has the
right to cancel the concession on the faith of which so
much money and work has been expended.
It cannot be too strongly emphasised that the Board
is and always has been desirous of settling all questions
that arise between the Company and the Persian Govern
ment in a fair and friendly manner and in the broadest
possible spirit consistent with its duty to endeavour to
preserve a fair and just equilibrium between the interests
of the Persian Government and of the Stockholders of
the Company, and it is believed that the information
which has been given above would satisfy any impartial
person that the suggestions made by the Persian
Government to the contrary have no foundation.
The Board do not wish to minimise the seriod I
character of the action taken by the Persian Government,
nor the grave nature of the difficulties with which, in
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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between His Majesty's Minister at Teheran, 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 cancellation, on 27 Nov 1932, of the 1901 D'Arcy Concession, because APOC was not acting in the interest of Persia in reducing the oil production in 1932. The British Government considered escalating the breach of the concession to the International Court of Justice considering it a dispute between the Persian Government and the British Government. The volume contains: APOC's report on the 'Situation in Persia' (folios 87-92) and letter from the Deputy Chairman of APOC to the Company's Stakeholders to inform them (folios 93-107). The volume also includes copies of articles from The Times and copies of printed documents related to the dispute, including the agreement with D'Arcy (folios 219-231).
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- 1 volume (221 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 237-239). 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 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 on the title page, on number 1, then 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 1F, 1G and 1H; 2-27; 28-40 are skipped or omitted; 41-124; 125-135 are skipped or omitted; 136-146; 147-155 are skipped or omitted; 156-185; 186 and 187 are skipped or omitted; 188-201; 202 and 202A and then it carries on until 245, which is the last number given on the last folio of the volume. Between 93 and 107 the folios are paginated.
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- IOR/R/15/1/635
- Title
- 'F 80 File 82/34 I APOC Concession'
- Pages
- 93:106, 107r, 107v
- Author
- Fraser, W
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