PERSIAN CRISIS
AGREEMENT WITH THE SOVIET
.A ONE-SIDED BARGAIN.
(UNITED PMSS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOHT.) (REUTBR'S IBLESBAM.)
LONDON, 18th JanuaryX
_ Persian advices show that the situation is precarious. Having failed to ratify the Anglo-Persian Agreement, which would have enabled Persia to straighten out her affairs', the Persians think the best alternative is an agreement with Soviet Russia. Although an agreement has not yet l^een signed, practically it hands over Persia to the Soviet, which has the right under it to invade Persia whenever it pleases to regard the country as threatened. The Persians realise that they are not getting anything out of the Soviet, but owing to apprehensions of the future they want to keep on good terms with Mobcow. THoiigh the British evacuation of North Persia will shortly begin, there cannot be any question of allowing Bolshevik interference in South Persia, owing to the proximity of British territory. ■•' ■
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Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 17, 20 January 1921, Page 7
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146PERSIAN CRISIS Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 17, 20 January 1921, Page 7
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