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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
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CONFIDENTIAL
December 20, 1932.
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Mr. Hoare to Sir John Simon.—(Received December 20.)
(No. 514.)
Sir, Tehran, December 3, 1932.
WITH reference to the opening paragraph of my despatch No. 505 of the
30th November, I have the honour to inform you that the resident director of
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, acting on the instructions of his board in
London, replied on the 29th November to the Minister of Finance's letter of the
27th November. His letter denied that the company had ever violated the terms
of the D'Arcy Concession, and declared that the company could not recognise the
right of the Persian Government to cancel that concession. It also dealt with
the argument that the concession was invalid because it was granted prior to
the establishment of the Constitution, and refuted the accusation that the
company had never taken any steps to meet the views of the Persian Government
on the subject of revision. It ended by expressing the hope that the Persian
Government would immediately withdraAV their announcement.
2. The Minister of Finance replied on the 1st December in a brief letter
stating that the Persian Government did not accept any of the company's
declarations or explanations and that the cancellation of the concession remained
in force.
3. On the previous day, the 30th November, the Minister of Finance had
informed Mr. Jacks that on account of the cancellation of the concession the post
of Imperial Commissioner had been abolished and the services of Mirza Eissa
Khan Faiz dispensed with. Mirza Mustapha Khan Fateh, the head of the
marketing organisation of the company in Tehran, subsequently took the Minister
of Finance privately to task for this callous treatment of his representative.
Taqizadeh explained that, as soon as the cancellation had been announced, the
Persian Government had sent instructions to Eissa Khan to return to Persia.
Eissa Khan had replied flatly declining to do so, and the Government had
therefore had no alternative but to dismiss him.
4. For the sake of convenience, I enclose herewith a translation of the
Minister of Finance's letter of the 27th November, although a copy also forms
the enclosure to my despatch No. 505. Copies, or translations, of Mr. Jacks's
letter of the 29th November and the Minister of Finance's letter of the
30th November and the 1st December are also enclosed^ 1 ) The Persian texts of
all these letters are on record in His Majesty's Legation.
5. I am sending a copy of this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India (No. 243), the Honourable the Political Resident in the
Persian Gulf at Bushire (No. 209), His Majesty's Ambassador at Bagdad
(No. 121), and to the acting British consul, Ahwaz (No. 86).
I have, &c.
R. H. HOARE.
( 1 ) Not printed.
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