Charles Calmer Hart

Charles Calmer Hart (born September 4, 1879 in Bryant , Indiana , † May 5, 1955 in Cleveland , Ohio ) was an American journalist and diplomat .

Life

Charles Calmer Hart trained as a printer and worked for 27 years as a journalist for the San Francisco Call , editor of the city edition of the Geneva Herald , journalist for Muncie Star and Indianapolis Star, and editor of the city edition of Spokesman Review in Spokane . He was also the Portland Oregonian correspondent in Washington, DC

On May 27, 1925 he was appointed envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Tirana , where he was accredited from August 1, 1925 to December 12, 1929. During this time, the Albanian parliament changed the form of government to monarchy. Hart received an accreditation letter for Ahmet Zogu , which he presented on December 13, 1928. On November 12, 1929, he was appointed envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Tehran , where he was accredited from February 9, 1930 to October 31, 1933. During this time the state of Persia was renamed Iran . Hart was received by Reza Shah Pahlavi on February 9, 1930 in the Golestan Palace to receive the letter of accreditation. His impression was that he had met a man who was only a few leaps away from the frenzy that his tribal membership, his armed forces had made the Shah , and that his government was not for Persia but for the good of Reza Shah Pahlavi . During his tenure, Ernst Herzfeld and Erich Friedrich Schmidt were excavation directors at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute in Persepolis .

At the end of 1936, the Amiranian Oil Company of New York , a subsidiary of the Seabord Oil Company , sent him to Tehran as their representative, where from October 2, 1936 to January 3, 1937, he negotiated the granting of concessions for pipelines with Reza Shah Pahlavi . The agreement was ratified by the Majles in early February 1937. The Amiranian Oil Company of New York decided on June 12, 1938 not to use the concessions. In the following four years he traveled 300,000 miles through Central Asia and agreed five concessions to extract and transport oil . In Afghanistan he secured claims for an area of ​​270,000 square miles, in Persia claims for 200,000 square miles and the concession for a pipeline for mineral oil from Afghanistan and Persia. His negotiations with Bakr Sidqī were irrelevant after his murder. A concession negotiated for Palestine was rejected by the Amiranian Oil Company of New York because of petroleum legislation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mohammad Gholi Majd, Great Britain and Reza Shah
2. ↑ David Shavit, The United States in the Middle East: a historical dictionary, Greenwood Press, 1988 - 441 pp, p. 157
3. ↑ John A. de novo, American Interests and Policies in the Middle East , 1900-1939, p 314
4. ↑ ( New York Union Sun Journal , 1955 ; PDF; 1.2 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Ulysses Grant-Smith	United States Envoy in Tirana August 1, 1925-12. December 1929	Herman Bernstein
Hoffman Philip	United States Envoy to Tehran February 9, 1930–31. October 1933	William H. Hornibrook