Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 5931/462.

Chargé de Billier to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Legation,
Teheran, July 22, 1909.

Says the British minister on behalf of British Government has recognized the new Shah of Persia on July 21 and asks if he may recognize Government.