"ملف 39/2 (1 B/8) تأثير إلغاء الحكومة الفارسية لامتياز شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية على سوق النفط في البحرين" [و‎‎٢] (٨٠/٣)

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ANGLO-PERSIA!? OIL COMPANY.
SI TUATION IN PERSIA .
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A brief chronology of events is as follov?s. ! \
On the 2?th November 1932 the Persian Government
notified the Company of the annulment of the Company's
Concession.
On the 3Sth November the Company replied that h
they could not recognise the right claimed by the Persian
Government to cancel the Concession either in Law or in \
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equity and requested the Persian Government to withdraw
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the cancellation.
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On the 1st December the Persian Government replied
to the Company declining to withdraw the cancellation.
The full text of these letters is given in the
Company's announcement dated 6th December 1932 addressed
to the Stockholders of the Company.
On the 2nd December the British Government addressed
a note to the Persian Government which was delivered to the
Persian Government on the same date by the British Minister
in Tehran.
On the 3rd December the Persian Government replied
to this note in a note which was received by the British
Government on the 5th December.
On the 9th December a second note was delivered to
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the Persian Government by the British Minister on behalf
of the British Government.
The terms of these notes are given in one of the
attached extracts from the "Times" dated the 9th Dec. 1932.
Subsequent notes have been exchanged between the two
Governments, but their full text has not yet been published.
The gist of them has however appeared in Keuters and is
briefly this.
On or about the 14th December the Persian Government
in a second note replied to the British Government's second
note in which they re-affirmed their decision not to withdraw