ملف ١٩٢٨/٢٠٠ الجزء ٥ "بلاد فارس: العلاقات الأنجلو-فارسية، مفاوضات بشأن المعاهدة" [و‎‎٢‎٢‎٧] (١١٣٢/٤٥٨)

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“Zl^S^m^StcUforMia,
Political Department,
India Office,
London, S. 44. 1.
P.
,>206/30.
INDIA OFFICE,
WHITEHALL,
LONDON, ,S.W. 1.
11th tpril, 192c.
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Sir,
’■ith reference to Sir H. CUre f e l,o. 7o #
dated 25th k^yrch, 1>2C% and to recmt discussion on the
question of Uio lordin of U\e non - ^ :re s si on article of tii#
draft General treaty with Persia, I am directed by the
secretary of State for India to refer to the correspondence
) noted in the margin with trie
Tel%r^ to Viceroy^BatS^fW 'Mar^i,
1007 (copy eafit to F©rei$a office
am 1 #k4- avA-v*4 1 I /‘i'l" ^
lit A-.ril auisr letter ;,o. p. 2082/
■wficeroy dated 5th April, No. 1Q54»M
I (cony iml to Pom t « Office vnder letter
he. P. 2290/30, dated 7th April),
fw Viceroy dated 5Wi April. No. 1035-/
1 eant to ’orei n Office under letter
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The Und
i ovemifutit of India.
2* It will be mmi
tliat tiia Qovemmmt of India
a^rae with tea Secretary of
State that the iomal acceptance of rtspensibility for non-
stiftimion involved in the article as now proposed to be
redrafts does not t p beyond the presait practice of His
majesty’© Oovemment in dealing with the States on tlie irab
littoral of the Persi m Culf t md Uiat they see no objection to
it. St pg are bairr; taken to secure from the * ultan of uscat
'•^(1 the Jieikhs of Bahrein md Koweit tiie necessary authority
to enter into m mderi^ing of this nature on their behalf.
^ le ^eretaiy of State agrees with the oovemiaarit of In ia in
thinking it unnecessary to obtain a sir^lar autority in the
ea*« of the tiaikhs of 1 Katr and of Urn Irucial t^ast.
The question whether the draft, if amended as
pmpoged in the telegram to the Viceroy of the 29th arch, is
° PIB 10 crit iel«a as providing potential grounds fur a piotest
by ^ ers ^ a * if it were at my later date decided by His
^ WrefWjj ?>1 to establish a protectorate over miy of
foreign office.
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