مجموعة ١٠٩/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. معاهدة التحالف الأنجلو-سوفييتية-فارسية،١٩٤٢." [و‎‎٢‎٧] (٤٤٢/٥٣)

OUTWARD TELEGRAM
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government, and should be
kept under Lock and Key.]
(E 4140/509/54)
[CYPHER].
DEPARTMENTAL No, 2.
FROM FOREIGN OFFICE TO TEHRAN
No: 1029 D. 6 . 50 p.m. July 18th, 1942.
TuIy-IFth, 1942.
Repeated to Minister of State Cairo No.l595 w
Bagdad (for General Officer Commanding and
Air Officer Commanding) No. 705.
inn
Your telegram No. 841 [of 27th June] and Minister of
State 1 "s telegram No. 214 to you [of 9th July: payment, of rent
to Persian Government for state-owned buildings occupied by
His Majesty's Forces].
You may negotiate with Persian Government on.basis
proposed in your paragraph 5. We.are however anxious to
maintain the principle laid down in my telegram No. 295 [oi
26th February] that His Majesty s Government should at most
be responsible for reimbursement of out-of-pocket.expenses oi
Persian Government, Payment should only be made in cases
where it is established that Persian Government have been
obliged to incur extra expense as the result of our occupation
of state-owned properties*’in question. Payment should not
exceed the amount of such extra expense, nor the amount which
would represent a fair rental for the properties.
2. In this and any other.similar case you shpuld
endeavour to secure the insertion of a clause stating that the
financial terms therein agreed are always subject to the
provisions of any general financial agreement which may he
concluded between the two Governments in accordance with
Article 4(2) of the Treaty of Alliance and may be applicable .
to the case.
[Copies sent to Mr. Armstrong]*