The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-10-27
4NGLO-PERSTAN
TREATY DEFENDED
Sir Valentine Chirol Declares That 1t
Will Be Submitted to the Council
of the League of Nations and Be-
lieves 1t Will Be Approved.

London, Oct. q (By the Associated
Press).-SiT Valentine Chrol. the we'll
known authority on India and Persia.
who accompanied Viscount Curzop
when he was viceroy Of India in his
tour OF Persia is out in an article
strongly unfolding the Anglo. Persian
treaty recently negotiated, and declar
ing that it will be submitted 10 the
council of the league of nations. where
he confidently believes il will be an
proved as the first milestone in inter
national relationship based not upon
might but upon right Sir Valentine
says in part;
The agreement signed on 9th Au-
gust between the British and Persian
governments is the first important in.
ternational treaty outside those con.
Guided between actual beligerents-
since the armistice of November last
held out the promise Of returning peace
to shattered and exhausted world
The promise remains still very largely
unfuItilled, but the treaty of Versailles
has at least laid down in the covenant
OF the league of nations the lines upon
which. 1t may reasonably be hoped. its
tultillment may ultimately be compIet.
cd ana made as permanently secure as
can be expected from the inherent
fraility of all human combinations.
The first question therefore to be
asked by those who study the terms of
the new Anglo Persian agreement. and
especially by such as are not directly
interested In the concrete questions
which it has endeavored to solve. must
necessarily be whether the spirit and
substance Of this compact il in har.
mony with the new dispensation fore
Swallowed by the league Of nations. It's
authors are. confident that It Is. and
have given the strongest proof possible
OF their sincerity by undertaking to
submit 1t to the council of the league
of nations and to defend it Jointly be-
fore that body as soon as the council
comes into effective existence after the
ratification of the Versailles treaty.
IF the Anglo Persian agreement can
stand that decisive test, it will be the
first and very conspicuous milestone
on the road along which the world NAV
hope to travel towards the establish
ment OF system of international rela
tlonships based not upon might but
upon right"
Referring to Persia's attitude in the
recent war, he saws:
There were moments when the Per.
sian court and government, convinced
that Germany must win, nearly sue.
cumbed to hostile solicitations. But at
that stage the propinquity of Russian
armies and the capture of Bagdad bv
the British were powerful correctiyes
to the tale OF Germanic victories on
the more distant battlefields Of Europe,
When the Russian debacle released Per
STA from the old nightmare of Russian
domination, and British troops and
British supplies alone stood between
the people of western Persia and the
depredations of Turkish invaders which
had already spelt starvation and IN
told sutferings, the craftsmanship Of
the more enlightened and far seeing
Persians such as the present prime
minister, Vossuk- ed Dowleh, finally
prevailed, and Persia, having learned
the bitter lesson of her own utter help.
lessness, realized once more that her
salvation lay in British hands.
% Wheh inc great war came to an
end and Turkey as well as her Euro
pean allies had to sue for peace in Per
sia, whilst the old dread of autocratic
Russia had made room for the new ter.
ror of Russian bolshevism, Britain was
in position to dictate practically any
terms she liked at Teheran. She could
have imposed a protectorate, yelled or
unveiled, as was expected by many
Persians with uneasy conscitnces over