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...Persians, however, may send an unlimited amount of goods at privileged rates of tariff and transport, to the fairs of Nizhniy-Novgorod and Baku, provided that they buy not less than 85% in Russian goods at the fairs. The balance may be recovered by Persia in foreign currencies at official rates...
Significance. About a year ago Russia made a drastic cut in her imports from Persia, which were then about 60,000,000 rubles annually, while Soviet exports amounted to only 20,000,000 rubles. Persia then boycotted Russian goods, threatened to build a railway from the Caspian Sea in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, in order to "make them independent of the Russian market." Both sides suffered in the economic conflict and AH Ghuli Khan, one-time Ambassador at Moscow, was sent early in the year to negotiate the above treaty...
...accord now reached represents a compromise obviously unsatisfactory to the Persians, who sought to raise the trade limit to 35,000,000 rubles. The threat^ of the railway is primarily inspired by British influence, which aims at strengthening Persia as a buffer state between India and Russia...
...into semipolitical feuds, greatly advantages Russia. Through it the Russians will be able to cross the frontier, probably only to a limited extent, to check any counter-revolutionary movement that may be formed there; for it is believed in Moscow that the British are attempting to foster trouble in Persia against the Caucasus and Turkestan...
Clicking smoothly over groomed lawns, globes of lignum vitae or other dark and ponderous fibre, rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...