مجموعة ١١٠/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. المساعدة الاقتصادية والمالية من قبل الحكومة البريطانية." [و‎‎٣‎٤] (٧٩/٦٧)

Secretary, External Department.
There are three issues raised in this correspondence.
(a) Whether we should give financial assistance to Persia.
I agree that in view of our secret information that the
Persians do not really want such assistance there is no
purpose in pursuing the matter at the moment and that we
cannot question the Foreign Office's decision to refuse
to incorporate any undertaking on the subject in the
treaty,
(b) Whether we should accede to the Persian request that
we should buy their produce and facilitate their imports.
I agree on the whole with the Foreign Office that we should
not enter into any obligation on this point as part of the
treaty. We are in fact doing everything that is possible
in view of the shipping and port situation to assist
Persia's imports. We may have to buy some more Persian
produce (e.g. Persian cotton) but it seems best not to
pursue this at the moment.
(c) Whether we should support the G-overnment of India's
proposal that the Persians should be given an Economic
Adviser. This has nothing to do with the treaty as such.
It seems to me to be a sound idea that there should be
more qualified economic and financial advice at Tehran
than there is at present. Whether it should take the form
of an American Economic or Financial Adviser attached to
the Persian Government or of the strengthening of the staff
of H.M. Legation by the addition of an economic expert
who would carry some guns is a point which is more open to
question. I am at present rather inclined to favour the
latter. The advice of an expert attached to the Legation
would be available informally to the Persian Government and
he could be appointed without consultation with the Russians.
My/