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No. 151 .
22nd July, 1941.,
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9,30 p.m. 22nd July, 1941
11-0 a,m- 23rd July, 1941
Repeated to Governnent of India No, 336-
Cairo No 74.
Bagdad No. 1 68.
Political Resident the Persian Gulf No, //,
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lour tele grains 162 ; No, J2 and No t . 396,
o0viei; ^cassador receive:! instructions to make
and T 1 ?tnd e htu S flM aU0 “', /I r e / n C0DStant coniTunioation
d d 1316 and hel Pful (with reference to
onlv^ust^rt fortunately he and the Counsellor have
the sovt t ' HOreover 1 find to ay great concern that
affairr^tht^th^ ^cesdinglyill-infomed about local
inf-oii+H t t i: s ambassador seeas to depend on me for
information even about the Tabriz demonstration,
+h* il, W f.. totd sa ’5 the Prime Minister and I have since seen
the acting Minister for Foreign Affaix-s and had a second
interview with ohe Prime minister., We agree that they are in
general well disposed - an opinion shared by all my .Allied
decT'n^ e +i- a + a w by - the -. j:iI,ierican Minister. The Prime Minister
d ®°+ a f tdat ha 13 a -reniy refusing to prolong any German
tract ox engagement and any residence permits of other
3 Wl11 ^ glad to send away any Germans whose
conauct is suspect or who can he replaced hy Iranians
(Persians; and he promises to give me figures of departures
m confidence 0 He stated however that to order a large
portion of the Germans^to leave within a short time could be
based on no criterion that would appear reasonable, that it would
be contrary to neutrality and that [?will] bring Iran
(Persia) into the conflict with Germany c The Prime Minister
declared (probably with truth) thae the Iranian Government
had resisted great pressure from the ^xis during hostilities in
Iraq and tha u the Iranian Government were entitled to our
thanks for that u I suggested that they had done their duty
but no more^ I frequently used the argument that neutrality
requires limitation of numbers and activities of Germans who
have elsewhere violated neutrality so outrageously 0
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INDIA OFFICE