... support in regard to the loan to the financial groups interested in the trans-Persian railway project. Moreover, the Persian Government has now tied the two issues together, and has made the granting of the railway concession dependent upon the obtaining ...

... which involved a dual control over that country, and might be regarded as hardly consistent with the independence of the Persian Government. As far as the neutral zone was concerned we did not sufficiently recognise that the exercise of responsibility involved ...

... some form of Constitutional Government; the fifth, to lose no chance of easing the distracted situation in which the Persian Government now was by counsel, attention, and such assistance as from time to time we may consider it expedient to give; the sixth ...

... security for the repayment. One thing was clear : that we were pouring money into Persia. We were practically financing the Persian Government in the South. NThere was this policy of doles going to stop? ‘'hat was the crux of the position? Surely it arose from ...