... seat or were kept there in any spirit of hostility to the Persian Government, that Govern*sent would assuredly have petitioned for their removal. But over and over again it was the Persian' Government that pleaded for their retention, these pleas being urgently ...

... the independence or of or to conceal and from the ' start I intik. ri - yof that country I hardy think I pressed the Persian Government and the 9hould have been honoured, as I have b en, Per ian Foreign Minister in particular during the whole of that period ...

... best to enable Persia to escape the blow aimed at her existence by the Bolsheviks. If the agreement failed, then, the Persian Government had been told, we could not continue, indefinitely our force at Kasviu. Probably would not retain a beyond the ...

... Army. If it we should Mite dove our hest to ssôto the Persian Government to neaps the blew mimed by the Bolsbevista at capital and it. national If , t we should have done best. The Persian Government had bees Isiff we could proride no iodednitie continuance ...

... member of the local Council, who to be engaged as foreign officials by the said he believed that the following night Persian Government: British experts will reorganise finances in Persia, to which the mission for the first lime in its history would be ...

... intention of the G to establish a British protectorate there. cxled to work the recent Anglo-Persien If, he said, the Persian Government de- Agreement, Great Britain give assistance to her, but if not, Persia must follow her own course. A tume limit had ...

... amount of aid to it to maintain order. Lord Curzon was less direct, but the intention behind his words is clear. The Persian Government have been told that the British Government would be surprised if it were able to prolong our military position at Kazvin ...

... intentions of that instrument , Lord Curzon had to acknowledge that its effect was to produce , in the minds of the Persian Government and people ; an almost incurable suspicion , which has not yet been removed . This feeling was strengthened and confirmed ...

... nucleve Persian Army. Tf it have done our best to ens Persian Government to @ e tl ita national existence. aimed by the Bolshevike at ita ca ni If it fa have done our best. The Persian Government had b could not provide an indefini inuance of our effort ...

... must be theirs . We had told the Persian Government that they could not rely on our military forces indefinitely , and thai we might not be able to prolong our military position beyond tho spring Tho new Persian Government included tho party of Young Democrats ...

... Protectorate , Tho asrroomont became mixed up in kaleido ¬ scopic changes , but the position now clearl y omerged that the Persian Government had been told by us that , tired of long dolays , we expected tho Persiau Parliament to bo ¦ summoned in tho ensuing ...

... engvged in violent artSi-British propaganda, and that he was mis«pected very extensive speculation at the coet of the Persian Government. Mr decided dispense with the services dangerous an ally as this officer. This decision was strongly supported by General ...