791.003/67: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Persia (Philip)
[Paraphrase]
Washington, January 26,
1928—6 p.m.
6. Your 7, January 17[18], 8 [7] p.m. The Ambassador in Great Britain has been informed by the British Foreign Office of the following [Page 684] safeguards desired for the protection of British nationals in Persia when consular jurisdiction ends:
- (1)
- Appointment by the Persian Government of foreign judicial advisers recommended by international court or some such tribunal.
- (2)
- Evidence in Persian courts to be reduced to writing and copies of it and verdict to be given to accused.
- (3)
- Religious courts to be debarred from jurisdiction and police courts to handle cases of only minor importance.
- (4)
- Foreign nationals, following their arrest, not to be kept in prison more than 24 hours without the authority of the foreign advisers.
- (5)
- Consuls to be notified of the arrest of their nationals, bail to be generous, and prisoners to have the right to organize their own defense.
- (6)
- Prisons to be suitable.
- (7)
- An agreement to be reached with regard to the personal status of foreign nationals, to follow the lines adopted in the treaty of Lausanne.6
- (8)
- Foreigners to receive the same treatment as Persians as regards taxation.
- (9)
- Adjudicated cases not to be tried again.
- (10)
- Persian legal codes to be satisfactory.
These points, the Department is informed, have been worked out in conjunction with the British Minister in Persia, but a certain latitude in the matter has been given to Clive.
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Kellogg
- Art. 16, treaty signed July 24, 1923, League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. xxviii, pp. 151, 163.↩