INDEPENDENCE OF PERSIA.
NOT MENACED BY BRITAIN.
STATEMENT BY LORD CURZON.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON. Nov. 16.
(R<-cd. 8.30 p.m.)
Lord CiHY.on, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, speaking in the House of Lirds, denied a suggestion that he had personal designs against the independence 0 Persia. The situation there was the inevitable sequel of the war. The tranquil East had been shaken, by prodigious < jnvulsioiis. The Government would not prolong the existing conditions a moment 1 inger than was necessary. The smallest knowledge of Eastern affairs taught that a '■villi irawal must be slow. We had 110 right to replace commotion with chaos. The highways of the East were strewn with the debris of war. If the task of Ft avenging fell to us it would require time to discharge the duty. A peaceful and stable Persia was the corner stone of British polit and the basis of Anglo-Persian agi cement.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17631, 18 November 1920, Page 7
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