791.003/86: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Houghton)
77. Department’s 35, February 14, 5 p.m.23 It appears as a result of a preliminary conversation, which on March 14 the Department authorized the Minister in Persia to hold with Teimourtache, Minister of the Court, respecting the possible bases of a new treaty between the United States and Persia, that:
- (1)
- Persia accepts in principle the establishment of several of the proposed safeguards, but there was no mention of the specific time when these safeguards will become operative; and
- (2)
- Persia does not favorably regard the suggestion of “the appointment of foreign judicial advisers to assist the Persian Government [Page 700] in the contemplated establishment and in the conduct of a modern judicial and penal system.”
It is considered important by the Department that the Persian Government be asked to indicate the time when the already accepted safeguards are to become operative, in order that the situation after May 10 of foreigners in Persia may be foreseen with a certain degree of clarity.
Importance is also attached by the Department to the question of Persia’s engaging foreign judicial advisers who have adequate powers.
Please endeavor informally to obtain from the British Foreign Office an expression of its views on the foregoing and cable as soon as possible to the Department.