ANGLO-PERSIAN TREATY, an agreement entered into Aug. 9, 1919, at Teheran, capital of Persia, between Great Britain and Persia in regard to the fu ture relation of the two countries. The text of the documents was published in England on Aug. 16. There were two main features of the instrument: one was an agreement on the part of Great Britain to furnish, at Persia's expense, military officers, munitions, and equip ment for an army that should maintain order in Persia and on her frontiers. The second offered a loan to Persia of £2,000,000, which was to be redeemable in 20 years and take priority over all other debts, except a previous loan for a smaller amount. The loan was to bear interest at 7 per cent., and as collateral Persia pledged her customs receipts. Ac companying the agreement, and practi cally a part of it, were letters from the British representative offering to aid Persia in recovering her war claims, and in the adjustment of her boundaries.
Considerable criticism arose in other countries as soon as the terms of the agreement were made known. The treaty was strongly attacked in the French press, which claimed that Great Britain had obtained a virtual protectorate over Persia. It was pointed out that the treaty had been concluded without first having been submitted to the League of Nations. It was alleged that Persian sovereignty had been practically de stroyed. In commercial circles the agreement was looked at askance as an attempt to assure British control over the Persian oil fields ar.1 other great natural resources. British officials, how
ever, asserted that Persian independence was not jeopardized by the agreement, and denied any purpose of creating a protectorate. The Persian Foreign Min ister, speaking in behalf of his govern ment, declared that the independence of Persia was not imperilled by the agree ment, and that it gave Great Britain no permanent rights or monopolies.
pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or one of the Anglo-Saxon race—that is, of the mingled Anglo-Sax ons and other Teutonic tribes from whom the English, the Lowland Scotch, a great proportion of the present inhabitants of Ulster, and the mass of the population in the United States and various British colonies sprung.
The word is also applied to the lan guage originally spoken by the race.
The Anglo-Saxon tongue did not pass directly into the English. The Norman conquest introduced a new element into the language, and produced temporary confusion. When this began to pass away, and it became evident that the tongue of the conquered rather than that of the conquerors was destined ultimately to prevail, it was not the old Anglo Saxon, pure and simple, which remained. There came in place of it various dia lects, especially a midland, a northern and a southern one. It was a mixed dia lect, mainly midland, but also slightly southern, which with Chaucer, in the 14th century, became the standard language; and at last, by a series of insensible changes, developed into the modern Eng lish tongue.