مجموعة ١١٠/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. المساعدة الاقتصادية والمالية من قبل الحكومة البريطانية." [ظ‎‎٣‎٢] (٧٩/٦٤)

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she could not expect to continue to receive the favourable
treatment which we had been giving her, and we should then
regard ourselves as under no treaty obligation cowarcis ^
Persia whatever.
5. I then read to the Minister the last two .
senten ces o f my tele gram No. 1042 to you. The minister
continued to piead for Lne inclusion of some lh±ng-~~further
in the Treaty which would give it a popular appeal. 1
replied that I had been through the text most carelully
and I had accepted, subject to the approval of our Soviet
allv. a number of Persian amendments. I could now go no
further. As soon as you had received the agreement of
your Soviet colleague, you would see the Persian G-overnmen
and put the full text as now proposed before them. I hoped,
that the Minister would use his utmost influence^to advise
his Government to accept this Treaty without furuher aelay.
I was confident that it was in Persia s interests to do this.
6. The Minister would remember that we and the Soviet
Government had withdrav/n our troops from Tehran^some time ago,
There had been some criticism of us for that acuion. ine
Minister said that we were entirely right to try to get the
confidence of the Persian Government and.people. 1 said
if that were so, it was now for the Persian Government to
prove that the confidence of their friends was justified.
I quite understood that the Persian. Government naght think;
that they might meet with some criticism from the Majlis,,
but since what they were doing was in the interest of their
country they should have the courage to face up to that.
7. The Minister was friendly but worried. .1 hope
that I may have been able to put some heart into him.
I made it plain that I was not able to discuss amendments
with him, and that the detailed text of.the negotiations was
in your hands at Tehran. This ho readily accepted.