"F 80 ملف 82/34 I امتياز أ.ب.و.ك" [‎٩‎٦] (٤٣٦/١٨٧)

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equity and justice. The Company takes the strongest
exception to the statements in Your Excellency's letter
that the Company has failed to take into considera^^,
the needs of the time and the present position of uie
Persian Government. The Company has at all times
shown itself willing by friendly negotiations to
endeavour to meet the views and the needs of the
Persian Government, and so far as accord has not been
reached the failure has certainly not been due to any
want of effort or goodwill on the part of the Company.
The Company must point out that the publication of the
Government's announcement in the Press will have most
damaging repercussions on the Company's business, and
the Directors venture to hope that on further considera
tion the Government will immediately withdraw this
announcement.
On the 1st December a cable was received from the
Resident Director in Tehran stating that a reply in
the following sense had been received to the Company's
communication from the Minister of Finance:—
In reply to your letter of 2^th November I deem it
necessary to state that the Persian Government does not
admit the statements and reasons as mentioned in the
said letter and considers itself entitled with sufficient
reasons to cancel the D'Arcy Concession and that it
remains its final decision which has been communicated
under this Ministry's letter of ttth November.
It will be observed that the Persian Government does
not suggest in the above communications that the Conv
pany has failed to carry out the terms of the D'A|J|
Concession, but that it bases its claim to cancel the Con
cession by one-sided action on the ground that in the view