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'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East' [29r] (57/110)
The record is made up of 1 file (55 folios). It was created in 1917-1920?. 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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9 .
possible. On the whole, the line of least resistance seems to
be that indicated in clause 3 of the French Ambassador^ Note
^ of the 26th December, i.e. the offer pf French fiminaial
experts. It is accordingly su^ested that the French G-ovemmen
might be informed that H.M’s Grovemraent cordially accept their
offer of co-operation, and suggest, as a first step, their
talking immediate -etepe to place a number of qualified experts
at the disposal of the Persian Government to assist in the
superintendence of Persian Finance. The disirability of
avoiding the use of the word "control' 1 or similar phrases,
might be informally irapfessed upon them. It is for considera-
not
tion whether the French offer might/be accompanied by some
guarded reference to a future loan. An j;Mediate loan is
clearly out of the question.
8, The objection that the appointment of French
financial exper^tj would conflict with the financial claases of
the so-called "August iigreement", i.e. the arrangement
embodied in the idaglo-Russian Note to the Persian Government of
the 4th August, 1916, may presumably be disregarded. The
clauses in question, which contemplated extending the
functions of the "ikdxed (Anglo-Russo-Persian) Financial
Commission", appointed to deal "Moratorium" advances, to a
general supervision of Persian finances, have never been put
into operation; and in any case, whatever view may be taken
as to the continued validity of our treaty obligations to
Russia, it can hardly be held, in existing circumstances, that
we are still bound to her in respect of a mere working
arrangement of this kind. A stronger objection may perhaps be
urged, on broad grounds of policy, to allowing French
financial influecne, with its somewhat dubious record, to gain
a foothold at Tehran. But the situation is so serious that
risks of this kind must be taken.
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This file mainly consists of notes and minutes relating to meetings of the Persia Committee between October 1917 and March 1918, covering British policy regarding that country. The file begins with a note by George Curzon, on Foreign Office headed paper, dated 1920 or later, which reads as follows: 'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East on which I presided during and after the War, until the creation of a Middle Eastern Department under the Colonial Office.' The note goes on to list the five committees as follows: the Persia Committee, the Mesopotamia Committee (formally known as the Mesopotamian Administration Committee), the Middle East Committee, the Eastern Committee, and the Interdepartmental Conference on the Middle East (Interdepartmental Conference on Middle East Affairs). In fact, as stated above, the enclosed papers relate almost entirely to the Persia Committee.
Also included among the papers are the following: notes by the 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. 's Political Department, on the situation in Persia, dated 19 October 1917 (ff 5-9); minutes of an interdepartmental conference held at the Privy Council (over which Curzon presided), dated 31 July 1917 (ff 10-11). In addition, the file contains two items of correspondence: a letter to Curzon from the Secretary of State for India (Joseph Austen Chamberlain), dated 8 June 1917; a copy of a telegram from the Foreign Office to Sir Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 21 February 1918.
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- 1 file (55 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 55; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Mss Eur F112/271
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- 'Records and papers of the 5 Committees on the Near and Middle East'
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- 1r:55v
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