'The Persian "Moratorium" scheme.'

Title:

'The Persian "Moratorium" scheme.'

Contributor:

Sir John Evelyn Shuckburgh (author)

Date:

1916/1916

Description:

This file, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, India Office, concerns what is referred to as a moratorium scheme for Persia.According to the report, the scheme was first suggested by the Persian Government in March 1915, when it proposed that Persia should be relieved, for a fixed period of two years (dated from the beginning of the First World War), of all payments on its British and Russian loans.The report discusses an adopted joint Anglo-Russian subvention, by which the Persian Government should be paid the sum of £30,000 a month (with one quarter of this amount – £7,500 – being taken from Indian revenues), back-dated to January 1915 and continuing until six months after the end of the war.Shuckburgh reports that Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Tehran, now proposes that Persia be paid 200,000 tomans a month, equivalent to £57,800, which will require a payment of £14,450 a month from Indian revenues.1 file (2 folios)The file consists of a single report.Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 115, and terminates at f 116, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Loans

Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000833.0x000167_ar
81055/vdc_100000000833.0x000167_en
IOR/L/PS/18/C169

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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