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 . erican assistants, and I was en-deavoring to select suitable men to bring out for that received several letters during the next few days from theBritish Legation asking whether I would not be willing to ac-cept a Swedish officer to take charge of the Treasury Gen-darmerie, or whether I would not agree to employ Major Stokesonly in the so-called southern sphere of Persia. Neither sug-gestion was of any practical
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 . erican assistants, and I was en-deavoring to select suitable men to bring out for that received several letters during the next few days from theBritish Legation asking whether I would not be willing to ac-cept a Swedish officer to take charge of the Treasury Gen-darmerie, or whether I would not agree to employ Major Stokesonly in the so-called southern sphere of Persia. Neither sug-gestion was of any practical value, since the Swedish officerwas not familiar with the language or the country. As to thesecond suggestion, it was perfectly well known that the Per-sian Government had steadfastly refused to recognize any di-vision of the country into spheres of influence. Indeed, oneof the great difficulties which I had encountered in endeavor-ing to secure the authorization of the Med j lis for the employ-ment under contract of Major Stokes had been the fear that Iwould do just what England now suggested — send himonly into the South, thereby tacitly recognizing by my official. F-PHRAIM KHAN, CHIEF OF THE POLICE AND GENDARMERIE OF TEHERAN. He did more than any other to defeat Muhammad All. Persias Garibaldi, as he is called, was killed In battle May 19, 1912. ATTITUDE OF THE POWERS 83 acts the so-called spheres of influence which Russia andEngland had endeavored to impose upon the Persian Govern-ment. On July 17 I was shown a note which another official ofthe Diplomatic Corps had received from the British Minister,conveying the contents of a cabled despatch from the BritishForeign Office which directed the British Legation to side withthe Russian Government in the dispute, over the control of theCustoms funds. I was reliably informed that the British Min-ister had received a despatch from Sir Edward Grey, statingthat the general European situation (meaning thereby the Mo-roccan question
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