خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٦٠٦/٢٦٣)

Tnis telegram is oi particular^-s-ana^sffoula oe
retained By the authorised recipient and not passed on].
Your telegram No. 503 (not repeated to Bagdad, Cairo
Mos cowTT "
Soviet Ambassador had interview of two hours with Prime
Minister this morning and only induced him to accept
representations in writing hy threatening to demand an
audience of the Shah. He had similar difficulty in
compelling the Prime Minister to accept copy of memorandum
for the Shah. Thanks to this, I had an easier task when
I saw the Prime Minister this evening, though the Prime
Minister and Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs together
tried to dissuade me from leaving my memorandum.
2. Prime Minister represented His Majesty's Government
as giving ultimatum, as being blind to difficulties of the
Iranian Government and as having other aims than elimination
of Germans. Conversation, which lasted If hours, covered
ground already covered many times. When Prime Minister
assured me that the Iranian Government were taking serious
steps to eliminate Germans and I asked for figures, he said
30 or more had gone in 3 weeks and more were going
imperceptibly, I said that at this rate it would take 2
years to effect serious reduction. He announced as a
| great secret that Mayer and Gamotta would be going soon.
3. Prime Minister spoke as though the measures Iranian
Government were taking, though highly successful, were so
discreet as not to be noticed by Germans. This is absurd,
and I assured the Prime Minister that it was waste of time
to look for a magic number so large as to satisfy His
Majesty's Government and so small as to be imperceptible to
Germany.
j) 4. We are to have reply within three days. «
[Cypher]
WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTION.
FROM IRAN (PERSIA) . Vo .
FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE.
Sir R. Bullard
No. 552
lEtli August, 1941
D. 10.20 p.m.
R. 12.00 p.m.
16th August, 1941
17th August, 1941
Repeated to Government of India No. 423
Bagdad
Cairo
Angora
Moscow
IMMEDIATE .
a.a.a.a.a.a.a
RECd. POL. i CPt.
• i 6 >Uo
INDIA OFFICE