"ملف II (F 94) 82/34 امتياز شركة أ.ب.و.ك" [و‎‎٥] (٣٦٢/٢٤)

that the point at Issue Is whether th« Sritiate Qoverameat
Mb the right to intepyene Is an Internal dilute of whieh
Persia itself is the sole coapetent judge.
8. All Tehran papers fro® that date onwards
have devoted aost of their front pages to the Oil dispate.
the "shafaft* of the 85rd January expresses great surprise
at the teaporary adjournment of the aeetiag of the League
Council, at the request of the sritish aovernaent. "Bad
the Persians asked for an adjournment",says the paper,
•we can Just imagine what the aritish papers would hawe
eaidj they would hawe addaoed the faot as showing that
the ;ersiaas had no proofs to offer",
9. ae •Ittili'it'* of the 2Srd criticises an
article in the "Daily telegraph". the first stateaent
in that article was that the Persians were evidently wery
proud of theaaelwes; the reason being, perhapSf that the
cospliaentary speeches made at the recent Kxhitoition of
Persian Art in London had given tho« exalted ideas of their
own importance. The . @r@iaa paper rmu'mm that thim
at rate mm* ttot all tfe# ccHRplimaats paid
to .^trsia at that tlma wmrm mm% as words i ha»ea
tha Far alalia will mm hm to traat Brltisli fmMleiata f
Bt&tmmt® %n future. Tkm fel^raph 11 also states
tliat thm oil royalties ware the principal items of rsvamia
in the Persian ^Mgat| whereas the truth is that the Imoget
was ^alaaoed withimt thest. A third statement,that
^whenever the Persian Goverameot desired it abrogated
Parliament 11 is vehemently denieds for twenty seven years
Persia has had a constitution, and during that time there
have heea eight asaemhlies of the Majlis, not erne of which
has been dissolved*
The ^Shafa*! ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية of the ^3rd also seeks to reply
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