He defended the Anglo-Persian agreement, which be said came nce because the situation unsatisfactory diplomatically mining and countermining against each other. Mr. Morgan Shuster set to work with good intentions and single-mind-eelness, but he did not take into account the peculiar political considerations underlying the agreement, and appointed Major Stokes, Bri (Commander of the Persian (Gendarmerie) who never made any secret of expressing anti-Rassian feelings. Russia, while not objecting to Mr. pointments of British subjects at Shiraz and Tepaban, objected to the appointment of Lecoffre at Tabriz, which was near the Russian frontier. This was not unreasonable. Adference to Mr. Shuster's principle would lead simply to the anglicizing of the Persian official service and the disappearance of the agreement.
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