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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [191r] (381/817)
The record is made up of 1 file (407 folios). It was created in 7 Sep 1938-1 Jan 1946. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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by a special commission of Under-Secretaries. The Commission recommen
ded, in brief, that essential goods should be supplied to the employees at
Aow prices through government stores. It is our purpose to establish go
vernment stores for the distribution of essential goods. These goods will, of
course, be available for purchase by the employees. This system of distribu
tion will be organized and put into operation as quickly as possible: and it
is evident that the Government should not undertake to establish and oper
ate two systems of stores.
Unfortunately, this system of distribution can not be put into opera
tion immediately; and, therefore, it does not offer a means of quick relief
for employees, f urthermore, my opinion is that it will not, in any event.
pro\ide adequate and equitable relief for all employees. To give such relief
in an equitable manner, the most deserving groups of employees should be
given cash allowances, which the employees may spend according to their
individual needs. Later, after prices have been stabilized, general increases
should be gi\ en, provided funds are available. \\ e have in view, therefore,
two distinct steps in the granting of help to the employees: (1) Cash allow
ances and (2) adjustment of salaries.
Lack of revenue to meet the ordinary expenditures of the Govern
ment, combined with our exhaused borrowing capacity, will make it im
possible for us to pay all of the expenses of the Government. We may be
compelled to leave a considerable part ot these expenses unpaid. Under
the circumstances, any additional grants or increases paid to the employees
will mean simply that more of the employees will have to be left unpaid,
belief to the employees depends on obtaining more income for the Govern
ment .
( losely connected with the question of increases of salaries is the
question of the overstaffing and waste that now exists in the Ministries.
I he budgets must be reduced to the absolute necessities. This action is
necessary for three reasons: (1) because reduced spending by the Govern-
ment is anti-inflationary; (2) because the Government can not function
efficiently so long as employees are kept in their jobs on the basis of need
and not on the basis of merit; and (3) because it would be financially
wasteful, unjust, and demoralizing to give help or increases to all imploy-
ees, including those who are unnecessary and useless. When these employ
ees are dismissed, the Government will have to sec that they do not starve
and will have to try to find other work for them, but it is not possible to
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Papers reporting on the financial situation in Iran, sent by staff at the British Legation at Tehran (Horace James Seymour; Reader William Bullard) to the Foreign Office, London. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/3 ‘Persia. Financial situation’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3394).
The file includes:
- Covering letters enclosing copies of the monthly Bulletin , produced by the Bank Melli Iran (also referred to as the Mellié Iran Bank, and Banque Mellié Iran). The copies of Bulletin are not included in the file (although some front covers do survive), however the covering letters give short summaries of their lead articles.
- Details and estimates for Iran’s annual budgets, with numerous statistical tables.
- Correspondence dated December 1939 to February 1940 relating to irrevocable documentary confirmed credits (irrevocable letters of credit) opened by Bank Melli Iran through banks in India (ff 356-361).
- Copies of laws passed by the Iranian Parliament, including a law relating to war credits and treasury bills (in French, f 334), a Law for the Prevention of Hoarding (ff 325-329) and an Income Tax Law (ff 262-271).
- Correspondence and budget reports dated 1943-1944, produced during the takeover of the administration of Iran’s Finance Ministry by a mission from the United States, led by Arthur Chester Millspaugh.
At the front of the file (ff 4-200) are fourteen monthly reports of the Administrator General of the Finances of Iran (Millspaugh), produced according to the Solar Hijri calender, and dating from Ordibehesht 1322 (equivalent to the Gregorian calendar date of 22 April to 22 May 1943) to Mehr 1323 (23 September to 22 October 1944). The reports, which also contain lists of staff of the Iranian Ministry of Finance and its connected organisations, summarise Iranian finances. Many of the reports contain a map of Iran (for example, folio 185), showing borders, roads and railways, major towns and cities, and districts, which are numbered 1 to 10.
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- 1 file (407 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The file’s correspondence begins at folio 202 and ends at folio 407. Printed reports occupy the front portion of the file (with an enclosing note, ff 4-201), and are also arranged in reverse chronological order.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 408; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3396
- Title
- Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’
- Pages
- 187r:200v, 176r:186v, 162r:175v, 149r:161v, 138r:148v, 126r:137v, 109r:125v, 84r:108v, 68r:83v
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- Bank Melli Iran
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