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‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’ [35v] (72/194)
The record is made up of 1 file (95 folios). It was created in 14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949. It was written in English. 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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proparraiida Activities in the Provinces. AH^M)33 C J'BJ^
The succeeding parr.. i?...'.Lie.■.to t>^ organisation of the various
provincial post3 c^' t^o Buror.u '-1 . t.-io pr.rticult-r acciv.'.ticL; carried out "by
each. Under tha pr^.jout coiif-liti ■:neither the Director nor the Heads of
Sections are in a position adequately to deal with publicity in. the provinces
or to visit tho outlying clicitrictc. jV the proposal for a cort:-.in clulo^/cion
oi'. duties pro".)osod by Lt. Col. GrrtiUwi is approved, CAiru\;e fer u.ic bettor in
tiiis iir.tter ~;ill inevitably result,
(1) TABirE.
A combined reading room and booksliop exists in the main street
and Allied broadcasts in Persicii are relayed by means of a loud-speaker.
Considerable quantities of reading material in Persian and in Russian are
sold through the P R.B. Bookshop. A window suitable for displays is also
available. One of the Bureau's cinema vans is stationed at Tabriz during
the summer months and gives performances both to Persians and to Huss. si
troops in the vicinity.
(2) K3 PJvL^SH A.H.
Kemanshah possesses a bookshop and radio hall. pictorial
displays are arrant:d in both pla.ees and broadcasts are given from a loud
speaker outside the radio hall. A cinema van is shared by this Consulate
and Hamadrn and tours extensively in the neighbouring tribal areas.
Publicity activities are in the charge of a British Officer attached to the
Consulate.
(3) HAI LAPM.
This post publishes a daily cycle-styled news bulletin which is
sold to some 500 subscribers. A reading room and display centre is
located in the main street and a "cr^fe close by is utilised for radio
broadcasts. A feature of the publicity work at Ham dan is the locally
organised addresses given over a microphone once a. week. This post
shares the Kermarshah c ire ma van which tours the outlying villages.
(4) ISF-'JIAIT.
Isfahan posresses a well-equipped reading room with a win^y for
displa.y purposes; in addition, a separate small exhibition hall is main
tained in the main street. Recently a, bookshop has been taken over end
converted into a publicity selling
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
subsidised by the Bureau.
Distribution of material is carried out on a wide scale. One of the
Bureau's cinema vans is permanently located at Isfahan and is used for
performances in the local schools and villages and at the British Institute.
The Bureau's work is in charge of a British Officer attached to the
Consulate. A daily cyclo-styled news bulletin is also issued.
(5) SHIRAZ.
This post has a reading rook and bookshop round which the local,
publicity activities are centred. Local British Officers carry out dis
tribution in outlying tribal cjreas and the post also publishes a daily
bulletin in Persian. S- iraz shares a cinema van with Bushire.
(6) BUSHIHE .
publicity activity centres mainly round the very popular re a. ding
room and club which is organised on a subscription basis. The club
possesses a radie and a second reading room ha.s been opened in one of the
la.rger villages nearby. Owing to the poverty in the area free dis
tribution of periodicals is greater than in other districts. Bushire
shares a cinema van with C'liiraz.
P .T.O.
About this item
- Content
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior ( Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire); Major Tom Hickinbotham and his successor A.L.A. Dredge, (Public Relations Officers in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bahrain); Captain J.B. Howes (Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bahrain then Deputy Secretary, Government of India Information and Broadcasting Department, New Delhi).
File correspondence discusses: the script and arrangements for making a British public information film about the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , by an Indian film unit, in 1945; requests for funds to develop a recreation ground and provide a cinema in Bahrain, in order to promote social contact between the British, Arabs and Persians, 1940-1941; and compiling a list of Sheikhs in Bahrain and Qatar and also Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Rulers, who would appreciate a supply of Arabic literature from the Public Relations Office in Bahrain, 1949. There is also a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Public Information Committee held in the Public Information Office, Bahrain on 12 January 1941 (ff.6-8).
The file also contains policies, plans, information and guidance relating to publicity work in the Middle East which were circulated to British officials in the region by the Ministry of Information in London and Cairo. These include British propaganda policy and planning for Persia 1944-1945 by the Overseas Planning Committee; information about British publicity work in Palestine; notes for making public statements about the political assassination of Lord Moyne (British Minister Resident in the Middle East) in Cairo on 6 November 1944; French claims in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. , 1945; and participation by Syria and Lebanon in the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (95 folios)
- Arrangement
File papers are arranged chronologically. The notes at the end of the file contain two lists of file contents. The first list (ff.93-94) records the reference numbers 1 to 44 (with gaps) which have been written in pencil or blue crayon on most of the documents, starting at the front of the file. The second list (ff.94-95) records reference numbers that refer to papers at the end of the file. The reference numbers help to identify and locate these documents in the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: numbered 1 to 95 in pencil in the top right hand corner. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the first file enclosure (f.1) and ends on the last file enclosure (f.95) at the back of the file. The front file cover is not foliated.
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- ‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
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- front, front-i, 1r:95v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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