ملف ١٩٢٨/٢٠٠ الجزء ٥ "بلاد فارس: العلاقات الأنجلو-فارسية، مفاوضات بشأن المعاهدة" [ظ‎‎٤‎٨‎٩] (١١٣٢/٩٨٣)

Whether the Heads of States in question are enumerated
in the Treaty or in an exchange of Motes, their positior.
vis-a-vis His Majesty’s Government will he made equally
clear.
(b) The Dominions Office pointed out that, on the
assumption that the Dominions would probably not wish to
accede to the Treaty, difficult questions might be
raised by the inclusion of those mandated territories fc
which mandates were held by a Dominion which did not
accede to the Treaty. The Foreiga Office agreed that t^e
only Protectorates, etc., in which the Persians were
likely in fact to have any interest were those in Asia,
and it was finally decided that Sir Robert Clive, at
any rate in the first instance, should offer a list of
those territories only. This is unobjectionable, so
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Paragraph 10 .- A long and complicated discussic
took place on the draft of this article. I stated the
views of this Office in accordance with the instructions
given me on "A 6624/29. The Dominions Office, however,
took the strongest exception to the proposals embodied in
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intention of entering into an agreement with Persia which
might exceed in time, though not in scope, the engagements
undertaken by us under the Covenant of the League, and
it would be necessary to reopen the whole question with tl
Cominions, about whose attitude they felt no confidence
in the matter, were we now to proceed on the basis of the
paragraph as drafted. After considerable further discussion,
it was finally decided that the best line to take with the
Persians would be that embodied in the revised draft
paragraph, although the meeting recognised that the
r osult of this might be substantially to reduce any value
which/