791.003/78: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Persia (Philip)
22. Department’s 12, February 28, 6 p.m. The British Ambassador here on March 6 supplied the Department with a copy of a memorandum in the French language which has been transmitted to Teimourtache by the British Minister in Persia18 on the subject of “judicial safeguards”. Containing 16 points, this memorandum substantially reproduces the first 15 points in the summary of 16 principal safeguards which was issued October 27, 1927 (file No. E 4575/526/34) by the British Foreign Office and supplied on February 20 to the Department by the British Ambassador here.18 However, all reference to the subject of satisfactory Persian codes of law (point 16 in the summary) is omitted in the memorandum in French.
Please telegraph the Department at once whether:
- (1)
- “Copy of the [16] British suggestions,” which you mentioned in your 21, March 5, 11 a.m., paragraph (2), is the above-cited summary or the memorandum in French;
- (2)
- The British Minister in Persia has taken or will take up with the Persian Government the question of satisfactory Persian codes of law.