File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’ [‎16v] (34/60)

v-^iid it se«e« to conaVltuto a recognition of th*
iuUh iihill group's intoroot* oad 1*im mofc
would make it difficult bow to if?ncr« Uloa ® lii u>vm vfi
altogether.
■y 1 ® other hand t*ir M. Urey note® the Otilnlon
expressed oy Mr. iretjiyBian, referred to in the Soard
of smii letter under reply, to the effect that the
Anglo-t ersian company have good grovovde for claiming
priority of righto in Mesopotamia; said it appeare
from a letter received from 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. that »«r.
Chaffiberl&in is inclined to take « s-;iicilar view.
In these circuiastances air S. Cray conaioerb it
indispensable that an inter-cep*rtts*nufi cuoaoittee
each as was suggested in the Foreign uffice letter of
March 2nd should meet at the earliest poseitl® date in
order to decide on the attiU.de to he taken oy his
Ma.iesty'e dovoriBtioot towsrds the clalfl® put forward
toy the inglo^pereiM c«r.pany. ihis co.nsittee might
also consider the larger Question of the cxpedleneif
of an amalgsiafttion which should iticlcan the Ihell-
koyal hutch broup In a dritish oil c<atolnatlon, fsnd
U,e Question of s modification in the existing con
trol of the ahull loyal hutch Croup; nut if itr.
huBCiman prefers, that Question could be reserved
for later discussion toy this or another cocmlttee.
I air.
Your most otoecient,
humble ^errant.