ملف رقم ٣٤٥ لسنة ١٩٠٨ الجزء الأول "المحمرة: الوضع. تطمينات بريطانية للشيخ." [و‎‎١‎٧‎٩] (٤١٦/٣٦٢)

advisees* either that the ajllss would get the upper hand of the
.ihah and that the latter would become a mere pupoet in their
hand® or else that the : ajlia would break up and that a general
upheaval would supervene* which would prompt or oblige Foreign
Power® to interfere and tjiat a ocrabble would result. In either
eventuality he felt that he would be in great Jeopardy* W© repeated
to him the nurnort of a recent telegram to the ©ffectbthat Huesia
and England had specifioally undertaken to respect the integrity
of Persia and aakod what he especially fears from the hajlia or
from Constitution&l Government. He replied that the i.ajlis and the
now free Press had always been hostile to him. The paper® had
repeatedly been attacking him lately, for everything he did*
Thus he had been attacked for the Leni Truf Hx^pedition and for
his friendship with Sheikh Pubarek. He knew that the Hussians, who
were all-powerful in Teheran In the way of pulling strings, wore
hostile to him and fostered thee© attacks, and he believed that the
first thing that tho Constitutional Government would do under the
nretext of ref m would to attempt to clip his wings and to noe
intrench further upon his hereditary and established rights. ^
Something in that direction was bound to happen and it was of vital
importance to him to know in the event of ( 1 ) the break up of
ersi® or ( 2 ) the attempt of the >ajlls to reduce him to nothing,
what the policy of His ajesty , s Government would be, and how far
they could reassure him now. He begged that we would consider the
question of giving him s. writing, assuring him (l) that we wouid
to the utmost of our power prevent his absorption by any other power
and that he and his children would be maintained in the enjoyment
of their patrimony* (2) that just as we had hitherto undertaken to
orotect Dhamn-reh from attack by a Foreign Power (whatever
pretext for such action be alleged) and also that we would continue
to give him our support and good offices oo long as he remained
faithful to the Lhah and acted in accordance with our advice ~
similarly w© would now extend that undertaking and promise him
immunity against tho inroads of th© ajlis upon his powers* j, e
pressed tJis conviction that hie salvation lay in 1 orring connsotions
with one of the great European Nations and that among those nations
his interest® suicl. ideas war© identical with those of Great Gritkln
and not