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File 200/1928 Pt 5 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations, Treaty Negotiations' [462v] (929/1132)
The record is made up of 1 volume (562 folios). It was created in 19 Aug 1929-29 Jul 1931. 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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modification of Taimourtache’s counter
proposals on this point; in the matter*
of the Slavery Convention (about which
vre are writing to you officially) we
are going much farther to meet Persia
than, on merits, we are probably justified
in doing; the question of a Persian
representative at Bahrein (little hope
as there is of meeting the Persians ovdr
this) is one which is intimately tied u)p
with the general Bahrein settlement,
which has by no means reached a
conclusive stage; and finally, the clai|rn
to Tamb is one which His Majesty’s
Government are most unlikely in any
circumstances to be able to concede,
and which, in our view, has no substantial
justification. In these circumstances,
the Secretary of State is uneasy to find
that Clive, before he is prepared to
press matters farther, even on these
points, is apparently anxious to
be in a position to offer a comp-romi-sa
s
on the major questions referred to in
his first paragraph, and that, even on Ithe
assumption that he gets his additional
arnnunition, he is not prepared to go
beyond saying that he does ’’not despair
of getting Taimourtache to meet us on
some, or even all” of the points dealt
with in paragraph 2 of his telegram.
Hr. Benn appreciates that much must
be left to Clive, and that allowance
must/
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This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between Reza Shah's Minister of Court, ‘Abdolhossein Khan Teymourtache [Teymurtash], and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the two governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues. The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence in French that was exchanged between the British Minister in Tehran, Sir Robert Clive, and Teymourtache.
In addition to this correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:
- 'Minutes of an Inter-departmental conference held at the Foreign Office on Wednesday, July 29th, 1931', (folios 6-13)
- Draft text of general treaty between Persia and Britain written in French, (folios 62-83)
- Copy of the concession granted to Baron Julius de Reuter to establish a bank in the Persian Empire under the name of 'The Imperial Bank of Persia' in 1889, (folios 341-342).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (562 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 200 (Anglo-Persian Treaty Negotiations) consists of eight volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/1250-1257. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6 and 7 comprising the fifth volume, and parts 8, 9 and 10 comprising one volume each.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 564; 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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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/1253
- Title
- File 200/1928 Pt 5 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations, Treaty Negotiations'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, spine , 1v:100v, 102r:255v, 257r:303v, 305r:554v, 558r:564r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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