Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [144v] (288/442)
The record is made up of 1 file (219 folios). It was created in 16 Sep 1941-13 Jul 1943. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: 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. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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she could not expect to continue to receive the favourable
treatment v/hich we had been giving her, and we should then
regard ourselves as under no treaty obligation towards
Persia whatever.
5. I then read to the Minister the last two
sentences of my telegram Wo. 1042 to you. The Minister
continued to plead for the inclusion of something further
in the Treaty which would give it a popular appeal. I
replied that I had been through the text most carefully
and I had accepted, subject to the-approval of our Soviet
ally, a number of Persian amendments. I could now go no
further. As soon as you had received the agreement of
your Soviet colleague, you would see the Persian Government
and put the full text as now proposed before them. I hoped
that the Minister would use his utmost influence to advise
his Government to accept this Treaty without further delay.
I was confident that it was in Persia's interests to do this.
6. The Minister would remember that we and the Soviet
Government had withdrawn our troops from Tehran some time ago.
There had been some criticism of us for that action. The
Minister said that we were entirely right to try to get the
confidence of the Persian Government and people. I said
if that were so, it was now for the Persian Government to
prove that the confidence of their friends was justified.
I quite understood that the Persian Government might think
that they might meet with some criticism from the Majlis,
but since what they were doing was in the interest of their
country they should have the courage to face up to that.
7. The Minister was friendly but worried. I hope
that I may have been able to put some heart into him.
I made it plain that I was not able to discuss amendments
with him, and that the detailed text of the negotiations was
in your nands at Tehran. This he readily accepted.
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Correspondence relating to the drafting and ratification of a treaty of alliance between Britain and the Soviet Union, introduced in the wake of the two nations’ invasion and occupation of Persia [Iran] in August 1941. The treaty set out to establish friendly relations between the three nations involved, and to ‘respect the territorial integrity, the sovereignty and the political independence of Iran.’ The file contains multiple drafts of the treaty articles, along with a final printed copy of the treaty, dated 29 January 1942 (ff 67-69). The file’s principal correspondents are: the British Legation in Tehran; the Foreign Office.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 221; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:55v, 58r, 59r:66v, 70r:146v, 150r:160v, 166r:181v, 185r:196v, 199r:205v, 209r:215v, 219r:220v, back-i, back
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