The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative . ook up thequestion of the status and departure of the Americans with theRussian and British Legations, which were openly controllingthe actions of the Persian Cabinet. At the request of the Rus-sian Minister the Americans agreed to remain and assist theBelgians in taking charge of the affairs of the Treasury, providedan equitable adjustment of their own contract rights should be how he came to give out the statement which
The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative . ook up thequestion of the status and departure of the Americans with theRussian and British Legations, which were openly controllingthe actions of the Persian Cabinet. At the request of the Rus-sian Minister the Americans agreed to remain and assist theBelgians in taking charge of the affairs of the Treasury, providedan equitable adjustment of their own contract rights should be how he came to give out the statement which he did. It seems that inhis anxiety to cast discredit upon the Americans in Persia and therebybolster up his own reputation with the Eussian Government and the pressat St. Petersburg, he had committed a truly laughable blunder. Whenhe and the Persian Cabinet had dispossessed the Americans from theTreasury offices, the current account of the Persian government with theImperial Bank of Persia showed a book overdraft of several thousandtumans. Against this nominal overdraft there was more than 300,000tumans standing to the credit of the Treasury at the Banque A POSTSCEIPT 323 made. The Cabinet Ministers, having made one faux pas intheir eagerness to do what they thought would please the Lega-tions, were careful thereafter to obey strictly the line of con-duct marked out for them by the Eussian Minister. Some dayslater Mr. Cairns and most of the other American Treasuryassistants left Teheran. Mr. .McCaskey, my second assistant,who had been in charge of the Banking Department of theTreasury, remained and gave the Belgian officials every assist-ance in taking over the books and accounts. Mr. Dickey agreedto remain in charge of the Imperial Mint until his successorshould arrive from Belgium. By March all the Americans hadleft, except Col. Merrill, who had decided to remain, at the re-quest of the Legations, as an instructor in the Gendarmerie. This amount was the surplus
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