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File 200/1928 Pt 5 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations, Treaty Negotiations' [377r] (758/1132)
The record is made up of 1 volume (562 folios). It was created in 19 Aug 1929-29 Jul 1931. It was written in English and French. 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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political Department.
Please see previous submission on
P. 376/30 below. The Foreign Office now communicate
for our concurrence the draft of the instructions
proposed to be addressed to Sir Robert Clive
regarding the Non-Aggression article in the General
Treaty.
We may, I submit, concur. The draft is
satisfactory as impressing upon Sir Robert Clive the
necessity of turning the concession we now propose to
make to such bargaining advantage as possible.
3, As regards the negotiations as a whole, the
Departmental notes of the 22nd and 25th January below
the correspondence on P. 638, read with Sir Robert
Olive’s telegram of the 19th January on P. 520/30,
show roughly the present position, since the date of
those notes it has been decided m principle by his
Majesty’s Government and the Government of India that,
subject to certain conditions, the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
may be transferred from Bushire to the Arab
littoral of the Gulf, and Sir Robert Clive has been
instructed accordingly.
The Minister is now in a position to deal
with practically every point of importance except the
question of Telegraphs, which has not yet reached a
stage at which instructions on it can be given to him.
If the Persian Government display an accommodating
disposition, and are really anxious to reach a
settlement, it is just possible that, as suggested m
Sir Robert Olive’s telegram of the 8th January on
P. 200/30, flagged below, agreement migjit be reached
and/
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This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between Reza Shah's Minister of Court, ‘Abdolhossein Khan Teymourtache [Teymurtash], and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the two governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues. The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence in French that was exchanged between the British Minister in Tehran, Sir Robert Clive, and Teymourtache.
In addition to this correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:
- 'Minutes of an Inter-departmental conference held at the Foreign Office on Wednesday, July 29th, 1931', (folios 6-13)
- Draft text of general treaty between Persia and Britain written in French, (folios 62-83)
- Copy of the concession granted to Baron Julius de Reuter to establish a bank in the Persian Empire under the name of 'The Imperial Bank of Persia' in 1889, (folios 341-342).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (562 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 200 (Anglo-Persian Treaty Negotiations) consists of eight volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/1250-1257. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6 and 7 comprising the fifth volume, and parts 8, 9 and 10 comprising one volume each.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 564; 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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- File 200/1928 Pt 5 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations, Treaty Negotiations'
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- front, back, spine, spine , 1v:100v, 102r:255v, 257r:303v, 305r:554v, 558r:564r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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