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situation des debiteurs et, au cas ou ils seraient dans Timpossibilite de payer, a
les liberer de leur dette. Dans les autres cas, il fixera le mode la plus favorable
de payement a terme.
Le Ministere des Finances est autorise a renoncer a Tencaissement des amendes
infligees pour cause de retard de payement, dans le cas des debiteurs ayant regie
le montant de leur dette avant la fin de 1318.
Art. XX .—Les articles suivants restent en Vigueur en 1319 :
a. L’art. 7 de la loi complementaire du budget de 1318.
b. L’art. 1 de la loi complementaire du budget de 1316.
c. L’art. 24 de la loi complementaire du budget de 1314.
d. L’art. 6 de la loi complementaire du budget de 1313.
e. L’art. 4 de la loi complementaire du budget de 1312.
Remarque .—La premiere partie de 1’art. 3 de la loi complementaire du budget
de 1312 reste en vigueur.
Art. XXL —Les articles 1-2-4-5-6-7-8-10-14-17 de la presente loi restent en
vigueur tant que la loi n’est pas abrogee et 1’article 12 de la loi complementaire
,du budget de 1317 est proroge pour deux ans.
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From British Legation, Tehran, No. 61 (59|9|40), dated 8th May 1941.
Tehran despatch to Foreign Office, No. 132 of 8th May 1940.
•Enclosure to Serial No. (17).
Despatch from British Legation, Tehran, to Foreign Office, No. 132 (59|9|40),
dated 8th May 1940.
In his telegram No. 89 of the 17th March, His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Bagdad reported that when Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. telegraphed to the foreign ministers of
the other Saadabad powers, on the formation of the Gailani Cabinet, he received
warm official replies from Ankara and Kabul but from Tehran nothing but a
personal telegram. On May 2nd, however, the birthday of the young King of
Iraq, the Tehran newspapers printed friendly reference to Iraq and mentioned
the Saadabad Pact. The “ Journal de Teheran ”, for instance, said : “ Ces
relations sinceres et amicales ont ete a la base du Pacte de Saad-Abad, qui con-
firme Punite at 1’amitie entre ITran et ITraq.” The Iraq Charge d’Affaires
informs me that it was he who induced the Minister for Foreign Affairs to
have these articles published. Until recently, he says, the Iranian Government
■were <iiraid to mention the Pact, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs even
told him that when Mr. Sarajoglou went to Moscow the Iranian Government
telegraphed to their representative in Moscow to urge Mr. Sarajoglou to keep
as quiet as possible about the Pact. The change may be due to some extent to
the lurkish Ambassador, who, according to accounts which he has given me
from time to time, has repeatedly urged the Minister for Foreign, Affairs to
1 stand up to the Russians and'has tried to make him realise that if Russia ever
attacked Iran, Turkey could not afford to stand idle. In this connection I
| enclose a summary of an article which appeared in the “ Ettalaat ” of the 16th
April, on the subject of union between the eastern peoples. The writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. repre
sents this union as a neutral growth hastened by the disillusion suffered by the
eastern peoples after the 1914 war, and he refers in ptarticular to Turkey :
Iran and turkey, he says, will assist each other in face of anything that may
happen. A similar line was followed in what purported to be a letter to the
editor of the same newspaper which w T as published on April 28th. This writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
daclare that jt is not merely a question of political agreements but a matter of
popular sentiment in the various countries of the Near East, in particular'Iran,
lie utters the warning that “ thousands of non-orientals ” would prefer dis
union to reign between the peoples of the East and do not hesitate to create
misunderstandings and suspicions and even to publish provocative statements.
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