خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٦] (٦٠٦/٢٥١)

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•jihis telegram is of particular secrecy and should he
•retained hy the authorised recipient and not passed on],
[CYPHER] WAR CABIKET DISTRIBUTION .
. Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs has just given me
this oral reply.
(1) Three Germans mentioned to leave within a week.
y \2) At least 100 to leave within a month from to-day.
(3) Thereafter elimination to he accelerated on basis
of schemes being prepared in all Ministries.
(4) No lists to he furnished hut he might give me now
and then some further details such as names and
jobs of Germans who had left.
2. Statement in 1 (4) was very vague. He said that
such particulars would he given on the understanding that
they would not he published and.that he was not giving
similar assurance to my Soviet colleague,
3. Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs finally
assured me that the Persian Government's programme which
ho said was prepared at the beginning of the war hut is
being accelerated because of our representations, would he
faithfully carried out and that sucp Germans as were allowed
to stay would he so closely watched that they could not
constitute danger to Persian or British interests. All this
publicity however only caused delay since the Persian
Government could not allow it to appear that they were
acting under pressure and they therefore looked to His
Majesty's Government to put a stop to it.
4. I replied as follows: while these proposals went
a little way towards meeting His Majesty's Government's
demands, they differed so widely from them (e.g. 100 instead
of about 550) that I saw no prospect whatever of their being
•accented. Lists were essential so that we might know
exactly who had gone. I could not agree to the arrangement
whereby I should receive details withheld from my Soviet
colleague whom I should inform at once of his assurance to
me on this point. Whether His Majesty's Government would
FROM: PERSIA .
FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
Sir R. Bullard.
No, 566.
19th August,^ 1941.
D. 10.15 p.m., 19th August, 1941.
R. • 8.35 a.m., 20th August, 1941.
of India No. 437,
-Repeated)to Government
Moscow,
Cairo,
Bagdad,
Angora.
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