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Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention' [31v] (62/117)
The record is made up of 1 file (58 folios). It was created in 19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935. 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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etc. of all third party shipping helow 500 tons in
the Gulf area. This would place the dhows of our
u rah protegees at the mercy of tne Persians and,
as the Foreign office agree, there can he no question
of acceding to any such proposal.
4 . The question for decision in these circumstances
is that of the tactics to he adopted in rejecting the
Persian proposal. The alternatives are:
(a) to reply that our Note of 3rd June 1933
which embodied considerable concessions from the
Persian point of view, represented tne farthest
point to which we could go; that Persia had not
only shewn no appreciation of the advance which
that Note constituted, hut had now come forward
with quite different proposals which we could
not regard as acceptable;
(h) the course suggested in para.5 of the
Foreign Office letter, viz. to base our refusal
on the reluctance of Persia to recognise the
position of the Arab States and Rulers of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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On the whole I think; that, for the reasons
given in their letter, the Foreign Office are right in
preferring the second of the above courses, the
adoption of which would, as they remark, leave us on
strong ground internationally. A mere repetition on
our part that the conditions put forward by us last
year, which were primarily designed to secure the sole
right of verification of flag for H.M. Ships, were
essential and could in no way be modified, might place
Persia in a position to put us at a disadvantage with
public opinion at Geneva, and indeed generally.
6. I attach a draft letter to the Foreign Officfe.
5.
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The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The correspondence concerns the following:
- the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic Convention (1882) and the Arms Traffic Convention (1925);
- the right to inspect third party shipping, and to verify the flags flown by vessels in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- previous negotiations with Anoushirvan Khan Sepahbodi, and the proposals submitted by him on 24 April 1933;
- the subsequent withdrawal of those proposals by the Persian [Iranian] Government;
- a new Persian proposal, presented on 30 May 1934.
The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, HM Representative at Tehran, the Secretary of State for India, and 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. Political Department. The file also contains communications received from the Persian Government, and a draft of the proposed agreement (folios 41-45). The formal British response can be found at folios 12-13.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (58 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 58; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2193
- Title
- Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 6r:40v, 46r:54v, 56r:58v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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