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Sir R. Bullard
No. 565 D. 10.15 P*m. 19th August, 1941.
19th August, 1941. R. 10.35 a.m. 20th August, 1941.
Repeated to Government of India No. 435
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My telegram No. 552. - |
Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs spoke to me
i 18th August in following sense a
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[Begins]. We are in fact doing v/hat you want hut in
accordance with our own programme. Over thirty Germans left
in three weeks. Wait a week or two and you will see even
greater results. I guarantee to send away within next week
Mayer Gamotta and Filers, No need to give Germans any
explanation, hut simply tell them they are undesirable. Only |
to put all this in writing is against our sovereignty. More- f:
over all this publicity is had. It weakens Persia. You do
not want a weak Persia remembering the disastrous results of
that folly during the last war. [Ends].. ||
2. I agreed that a weak Persia was not desirable, but
said that His Majesty’s Government would not be satisfied with
out a definite scheme with complete lists. We did not know
who the thirty were who v/ere said to have left, or even whether
the 6 per cent had not included by mistake some harmless . |;
refugees from Germany,, Then even if the Persian Government's
figure of 690 Germans was correct, about 550 should have left H
by the end of August, whereas he was talking vaguely about
relatively insignificant numbers.
3. I gained the strong impression that the Shah is
anxious about his own position. He cannot be entirely
unconscious of the general hatred of his rule, and the 'k
publicity of which Persia is now the object throughout the
world is evidently making him extremely nervous. My
impression was strengthened by the discovery that the Minister