خارجي ٤١/٥٠٠٠(٢) "بلاد فارس: الوضع قبيل احتلال الحلفاء، وما بعده" [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٩] (٦٠٦/٥١٧)

Dated Siiala, 18.25 hour§, 22nd July, 3941.
Received 20.00 hours, 22nd July, 1941.
XXX
IMPORTANT.
5710. Addressed to Secretary of State for India, repeated to
Minister at Tehran 225 and Cairo for Minister of State,
H-ofet. Your t elegrajn Ho a 8427 dated July 20 th.
2. ¥/e think reason for our protest will be apparent if it
Uo<»V is read ^ elation to Foreion Office tele^am 582 alone and
without reference to subsequent telegrams which were not then
before us. Foreign Office telegram quoted indicates only too
clearly that a policy scarcely distinguishable from (at least
temporary) appeasement in Iran had been substituted for that of
gradual application of sanctions which we advocated. You will
observe that penultimate sentence of paragraph No.4 of that
telegram suggested that policy out-lined would receive at least
one month’s trial. We have throughout stressed that for
geographical and other reasons Iran is key point and we have held
that time factor does not permit of pursuit of policy even on
temporary basis, of offering inducements 0 Even now we cannot
disguise our apprehension that development of positive policy
vis a vis Iran is too faltering in conception.
3. Our feeling that H.M.G. are not viewing the problem
elation to that in neighbouring countries is borne
• their allowing development of policy in that country
Lnd tha* in Afghanistan (whereas we advise the
reverse
Mi Iran in
recd.
to fall beh
23 JUl i941
INDIA OFFICE