‏"ملخص الأحداث والتدابير الرئيسية التي اتخذها سمو نائب الملك اللورد كرزون من كيدلستون، نائب الملك والحاكم العام للهند في إدارة الخارجية. ‏I‏. يناير ١٨٩٩-أبريل ١٩٠٤. ‏II‏. ديسمبر ١٩٠٤-نوفمبر ١٩٠٥. المجلد IV. بلاد فارس والخليج الفارسي." [ظ‎‎٦‎٠] (٣٨٦/١٢٥)

urged the Secretary of State to permit the Government of India an opportunity
of "taking into their consideration any conclusions which might have been
formed either by the Defence Committee or by His Majesty’s Government.
It was pointed out that the question of Persian defence and indeed of British
policy in Persia was one of overwhelming moment to the Government of India
who were charged with one-half of the annual cost of the official maintenance of
British interests in the Shah’s dominions; that as the defence of Persia was an
Indian equally with a British interest, and if active measures were required in
that country, Indian assistance would almost certainly be invoked, His Lordship
considered it a most legitimate and desirable measure of co-ordination that the
Government of India should usually be made acquainted with such discussions
or proposals as might from time to time take place on this important question.
“ The question,’’ he wrote, “ of British policy in Persia, even if at times it
may slumber, is one of such vital moment to ourselves, and is so certain in the
future to assume a much more prominent place on the field of Asiatic politics
than it has yet done, that we feel that it should never for long be absent from
our consideration, but that each successive phase or development of it should
be made the subject of our anxious scrutiny. Though the checks which have
recently been experienced by Russia in her policy of Asiatic expansion may
be thought to have lessened the chances of an active programme of political or
territorial advance in Persia, we can feel by no means certain that they may
not have the opposite effect ; while in the growing weakness and incapacity of
the Central Persian authority it is difficult not to observe the evidences of a dis
integration that may at any time culminate in serious anarchy or disaster.”
No reply was received to this despatch before Lord Curzon left India.