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Coll 28/109 ‘Persia. Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, 1942.’ [167r] (333/442)
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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FROM PERSIA
FROM 'L’-.m'u.: TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
Sir R. Bullard,
No. 112£
11 th November 1941
I). 2.25 p.m. 11 th November 1941
R. 8.55 p.m. 11th November 1941
Repeated to Foreign New Delhi No. 916
Kuibyshev SAVING
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Cairo
Bagdad
Angora
NLAAJUAM «
MOST BflvISDIATE.
My telegrams 1108 and 1114. F* ^
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After more meetings I am able to report the conditions
on which the Persian Government would sign treaty. If these
differ slightly from those mentioned in my telegrams under
reference, it is in the right direction. ' For instance, I
believe that in the last resort the Persian Government will
accept the word "alliance”. They dislike it and fear its
effect upon the public, but there are indirect signs that
if we can give them satisfaction in other directions they will
not reject the treaty on that one point.
2 . I have had to bear in mind that the Persian Government
see little need for a treaty, and that the public, who have
not forgottdn the treaty of 1919 and the bribery by which we
secured it, regard the idea of a treaty with deep suspicion,
especially as one of the parties is the Russians. It would
ear fran t paragraph No. 1 of your telegram No.992 that
Majesty s Government consider that Persia" would regard at
least with equanimity the prospect of a German invasion, but
Persian opinion on the whole believes that there would have
been no danger of a German attack on Persia but for the
presence of the allies, and a large proportion of the public *
would rejoice if the Germans or anyone else drove the Russians
out. The present Government would resign rather than accept
treaty as difficult to defend as our original draft, and
whatever happened after that, resignation alone would be
hailed as a German victory. In fact the Prime Minister, who
is naturally hostile to the German policy, has stuck to his
difficult task in spite of ill-health, in order not to give a
handle to German propaganda. I thought it my .duty, in order
to avoid the chaos which might follow his resignation, to
try to help.him out of his difficulties. I trust when the
amendments.in my immediately succeeding telegram have been
examined, it will he fnnnri that, the sncrcrec: t.Rri -nr*i r*p> i q
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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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- 1 file (219 folios)
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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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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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