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From: SOVIET UNION.
FROM MOSCOW TO FOREIGN OFFICE^
Sir S. Cripps.
No: 1059>
27th august, 1941 •
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11.41 p.m.
9.40 a.m.
27 th Angus t, 1941.
28th August, 1941.
Repeated to Angora No: 1Z2*
Tehran No: 127.
Bagdad No: 16.
Cairo No: 61. t
Government of India No: !/•
Aii i S S J> J>
MOST IMEDIa»TE.
My immediately preceding telegram.
After paying tribute at some length to the Soviet
Government 1 Insincere, fraternal and friendly" policy
tnwqr'rl^ Persia in the past years and describing article
6 of 1921 Treaty as a proof of mutual confidence which
"ilin principle f guarantee of territorial integrity of
the note goes on to assert that in fact o _
armed force of a foreign country has attempted by armed
intervention to realise on Persian soil a policy of
r'nnnnp^t or to transform it into a base for attaching
Soviet Union”. Persia, as a neutral count E^ °
limits^those according
to^efinitlon d contalnea in th! note *as tonded to .o
by certain elements among foreigners w ho h n 3 arrived in Persia,
and whose activities were regarded W the Soviet Government
as menacing the interests of the U.S.S.R. and G
The Soviet Government's representations of July 19th and
n" l!i Sorl-iroe rii.onstomar, -,rT
^nvereisn States, Persian Government took urgent and
effective measures "which would unquestionably have led to
results satisfactory to both countries . " f ^r careful study
of these measures the Ambassador himself had reached the
conclusion that by September- 15th last category 9^ IT g c* p
foreigners regarded as dangerous from point of view of U.S.S.R
wmild have had to leave the country. It is ^ x m ^ tcr 0I 1 ,
nearet that the Soviet Government did not await the result
of^these urgent measures. Assurances about respecting the
Sovereign^ights 0 f neutral Persia, her territorial integrity
and inviolability of her national independence were given
bSth by Soviet Government and British Government, and Persian
Government had complete confidence m Jnese assurances.
"In.
RECd. POL. DEPt.
3U!\UG 941
r'DIA OFFICE