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No. 1054.
19th November, 1941.
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Persian Minister informed me November 19th that while
his Government v/ere in principle in favour of the Treaty,
they were much exercised by the terms of our proposals.
It would be a misfortune, he thought, if this Government
were compelled to resign and Majlis might not approve
the terms. The Minister asked in particular whether we
could not agree more explicitly to Persia having a place
at the peace conference and above all whether we could not
improve Article 7 regarding economic help.
2. I told the Minister that I was sorry I could
not meet him on either of these points. Jis regards the
peace conference it was impossible.to gp further, than I
was proposing, since I could not visualise the circumstances
in which peace would eventually be made.
3. As regards financial help! could not accept that
the Persian Government were in difficulty there. They
had considerable sterling balances available in this country
which were at present frozen. These they would be able to
use as soon as the Treaty was signed. I understood that
Persian assets in the United States were now estimated at
'll million dollars. I suggested that.what Persia needed
was not money, but goods. We were doing our best to help
in this and were shipping further supplies of wheat to
Persia before the end of the year. The Minister.remarked
that his Government had not mentioned food in their telegram
to him. I replied that this was none the less a most
serious matter'that confronted Persia. Her people.were,
very short of food and we were trying to help them m this
as in other matters.
4. Broadly the choice for Persia was clear. _If she
became an ally she would be in the same category as Egypt,
Iraq, and Turkey, to all of v/hom we were sending supplies
and all of whom we had helped as far as we.could in respect
of their export trade. If, however, Persia was not an ally,
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