PERSIA AND TURKEY
TOE RULERS TO MEET (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 23. (Received April 25, at 5.5 p.m.) Asked if he would make a statement as to the arrangements for the impending meeting of the rulers of Persia and Turkey, Sir John Simon replied that reports had reached the British Government that the Shah of Persia may pay an official visit to the President of the Turkish Republic in the course of the summer. The matter was one which fell entirely within the sphere of those two countries and did not concern the British Government in any way. Further asked by Sir Arnold Wilson if he could say anything which would tend to discourage the publication in Britain of statements of a misleading and derogatory character regarding the rulers of these two countries, Sir John Simon replied: “I deplore no less than my honourable and gallant friend the appearance of such reference to the heads of foreign States with whom his Majesty’s Government is on terms of cordial friendship, and under whose able leadership these countries have made such remarkable progress, but as he is aware, his Majesty’s Government is not in a position to take any action in such cases and public opinion will no doubt know what value to attach to such references.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22246, 26 April 1934, Page 9
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