خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎٨‎٩] (٦٠٦/١٧٧)

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Sir R. Bullard
No. 599.
H5th August^ 1941,
Repeated to Government of India,
Moscow,
tSbor/ .iU, ^ Bagdad,
1 Angora.
Do 10.56 p.m. 25th August, 1941.
Ro 8.45 a.m. 26th August, 1941.
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My telegram 598.
_ Shah Ipoked old and rather feeble. V/e both gained
the impression that he was taken aback by the invasion
because he had supposed that everything was going nicely
and we saw clear evidence that he had not been kept
fully informed by his Ministers.
Prime Minister who was not present had not
conveyed to the Shah^the statement, based on your
telegram 543, which I had made to him some hours before.
Not that the Shah was impressed by the statement when I
repeated it to him: he said it was an odd thing to hear
when his towns in Azerbaijan were being bombed. We
spent much time in giving him information about the
German menace in Persia and the [grp. undec.J of it
seemed to be new to him. If, however, he has been
acting in ignorance', it is his own fault since he could
have summoned us after our representations of July 19th
instead of now. Moreover it is possible that any attempt
at a settlement would have been wrecked on the
invincible objection he showed to communicating to us
lists of Germans sent away. That he said would have
been in conflict with his 20 years struggle to maintain
the independence of Persia.
2« The Shah asked whether Great Britain and Russia
were at war with Persia. I recalled passage in my
communication of today "these measures will in no way be
directed against Persian people"o
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