Coll 29/86 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: incidence; revision; general' [‎128r] (255/561)

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British to Indian revenues. This is due to the fact that
the Indian service personnel in the posts staffed from
India is more expensive than the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. service personnel
in the posts staffed by the F.O. It is this fact which
makes the Treasury and the F.O. discontented with the
present arrangement and leads them to favour taking over
the posts staffed from India. Consequently, while
Indian public opinion deprecates the expenditure of
Indian money on representation in Persia and tends to
minimise or ignore the resulting benefit to Indian
interests, the arguments are by no means all on one side
in regard to an arrangement which, quite apart from the
political and commercial interests involved, results in
H.M.G. contributing half the cost of maintaining a number
of highly paid Indian-service officers.
The G. of I. set great store by their proposal to
stabilise their present expenditure at a contract sum
for a term of years - "It is the indefiniteness and the
unlimited extent of their possible financial liabilities
under the present system which gives the G. of I. the
greatest concern, and which they are most anxious to
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remove." This expression of their fears of any great
expansion/