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It le therefore probable that* if Indian o&^ital end enterpriee
oar. be enlieted for the eehene* a ^ropoeiticn oan be evolved
thet will be mutually advantageous*
5« far no action whatever has been taken by the
lersian Qovemrent to Initiate the ^und eohes}e t ap&rt from a
visit to the proposed site b> Vejda t in tire smasr of 1942*
It is well *orth pres&ing on the Persian Oovernmei-t the politick
desirabilil^ of tills project, which by providing first employ
ment and then .rasperity to the people of I^ashti, aould relieve
Oovemment of the recurrent lawleownsss of that area t m& the
ex^enae of continual disarmament ex, editions*
6* To assist the reconstruation of the trade of ^outh
isrsia, it is suggested that the Ministry' of war Transport
should be asked to gl ve asple notice both to lud Ian merohan is
in the 3ulf ard to the leralan mer chants of Bush ire «nd lingah,
triion can oe dons though this office, wiisnev^r they* nay be
placing on the market any large launches or snail steamer*
from tnsir present fleet* If merchants cun Uius ac^uirt a
eufiicient number of craft o% able cf standing well in with
the shore, or of coming alongside tne ^uoya, Persian commercial
coik.eutions with Bahrain and Bubai will be directly encouraged,
aid a stimulus thus givsu to a revival of the traditional
British end Indian trade with wcuth Persia which dates from our
first connection tith the waters € the Gulf*
?• «lth regard to the textile induutiy, an op ortunity
is llkeiy to occur in a smart time for British or Irxiian
cardial to interest itself in the It/imadleh cotton mill at
Bush ire, an enterprise which has been making v* ry large profits
end which has the advantage of proximity to a Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. port*
The present manning director, Mr* Husnsin iwgar, makee no
secret cf his intention to sell his h Xdlng, which is understood
to amount to over 4C * in the mill and return to England after
trie war* tiieti^er, however, we can advise British firms to
invest their capital in this country must necsscarlly depend
on our po*t-wur policy $ and the extent to which we axe gr;lhg
after the war to resist dlscrlKlnatoiy legislation against
foreigners of the ty e tiiat ruined our trade dur ng t)>e iahlavi
re glme •
a* Presumably it is our Intention to require the obe rv-
anoe of the spirit of the Atlantic Jhartcr by all the United
Kationa, and not merely to observe it ourselves wh« it ace* s
to H u «stioiA of oocsuercial freedexa* Ix« this case, we may
expect a marked revival of our trade with *»outh *ersi&} and
we shoe in therefore do well to prepare now to make use of the
Publicity reading roc&* vat.,oh haw been estatliehed In most of
our posts as rooms where samples of cur goods can be exhibltsd
(in particular by firms which can compete with Japanese piece-
goods manufacturese,Uwlss xatchoalcsrs or Osnnan firms such as
doysr, mm otise and Haasag; i or there local asrChants cam
be given oousaexoial Ixiformatlon, oar put in touch with our own
exporters and importers* samples would have to be kept u.~to-
date, and attractively displayed* Kone should. It is suggei^tsd,
be diepl^ed for more than 10 days at a tine* It mqy be
remarked that we have here an op ortunity' for getting into the
market before the amerloanst «ho have no publicity orprnina
tion in Persia*
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