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{Received on 15th February 1937 with Political Secretary's letter No. 4,
dated 15th January 1937.)
Enclosure in Foreign Office covering letter No. P. Z. 584/37, dated 25th
January 1937.
Letter from the Foreign Office to the Secreaty to the Board of
Trade, London, No. E. 435/81/34, dated the 23rd January 1937.
With reference to Board of Trade letter E. L. 202740 of the 4th January
enclosing a copy of an application by Messrs. Dashwood and Partners Limited
for a licence to export certain ammunition to Persia to the order of the Per
sian Government, I am directed by Mr. Secretary Eden to transmit to you,
to be laid before the Board of Trade, a copy of a telegram which has been
received from His Majesty’s Minister in Tehran in reply to Foreign Office
telegram No. 13 of the 16th January (S. No. 17) a copy of which was forwarded
to you under cove of Foreign Office letter E. 318/81/34 of the 18th January.
2. In view of the Persian Government’s statement that no such order
has been placed by them and of the possibility which exists that this consign
ment may be destined ultimately for Spanish Territory, Mr. Eden is of the
op inion that the grant of an export licence to Messrs. Dashwood and Partners
in respect of the ammunition in question should be refused.
Enclosure to S. No. 18.
Telegram from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office,
London, No. 9 (R), dated the 19th January 1937.
Your telegram No. 13 (S. No. 17).
Ministry of Foreign Affairs state that no such order has been placed
b y Iranian Government.
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Endorsement No. 151-S./37, dated the 1st February 1937.
The Hon’ble 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. presents his
compliments to
1. The Hon’ble Sir Aubrey Metcalfe, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., M.ViO.,
Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, New Delhi,
2. J. C. Walton Esquire, C.B., M.C., 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. , London,
and has the honour to transmit to him a copy of the undermentioned docu
ment.
Demi-official letter No. 150-S of the 1st February 1937, to His
Majesty’s Minister, Tehran.
Demi-official letter from the Hon’ble Lt. £ol. T. C. Fowle, C.B.E.,
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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , to H. J. Seymour. Esq.,
C.M.G., C.V.O., His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, No. 150-S, dated the
1st February 1937,
I have just received Butler’s despatch No. 468 of the 12th October 1936,
to the Foreign Office, giving a panorama of this country ten years after the
Coronation of the Shah, which has now reached me in blue print form.
2. Tucked away in Bushire I am of course far from well placed for giving
views on Iran in general, but if I may say so I think Butler has painted a
convincing picture of modern Iran.
3. The material progress, and particularly the progress in law and order,
made by Iran since the days when I first knew this country is of course con
siderable. The interesting question (which is dealt with in Butler’s despatch-
is: will this progress continue when the Shah is gathered to his fathers ? Most
of us, as a relief from ordinary office routine, have had a try at this intriguing