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Coll 5/47 ‘Persia and the Persian Gulf: Bushire and Bandar Abbas’ [4r] (7/46)
The record is made up of 1 file (21 folios). It was created in 5 Nov 1947-17 May 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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C.R.O.
Mr A Crooke 9.
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Corrfmonwealth Relations Office,
Downing Street.
ifil-L hMay, 1949.
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Patly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State
DRAFT
•ff.F. DAVIES ESQ.
FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.l.
Dear Davies,
Please refer to your letter
( rr .7200/24/50) of 2nd December,
1948, about the Meteorological
Stations at Bushire and Bandar
Abbas. I now enclose a copy of a
er from the United Kingdom High
Commissioner in Karachi, from which
you will see that the Government of
Pakistan are arranging to hand
over these two Meteorological
Further action.
Printing.
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Stations to the Iranian Meteorolo-
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Service. V/o, ao not ■ seem, to
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h’»v.^ any—grounds for-objeoting to
-biiic cjuivi! 1 ^. A spare copy of
the letter is also enclosed in
case you wish to send it to Teheran.
A copy of this letter,
together with the encloscire, is
being sent to Sir Kelson Johnson,
of the Meteorological Office, Air
Ministry.
A
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The file contains correspondence documenting a proposal from the British Embassy at Tehran that the meteorological stations at Bushire and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] should be shut down, and subsequent consultation with the Government of India and Pakistan via the officers of the UK High Commissioners to these respective countries. It also documents the decision of the Government of Pakistan – as the maintainer of the aforesaid stations – to transfer these stations to Iranian control, rather than close them down.
The main correspondents are as follows: officials of the Commonwealth Relations Office (Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison and Kenneth Roy Crook), officials of the Foreign Office (L W Blackwell and W F M Davies). A couple of letters from Sir Nelson King Johnson as Director of the Meteorological Office at the Air Ministry are also present within the file.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (21 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file, ending with a set of file notes on folio 2. Serial numbers in red ink, which occur throughout the file, refer to entries in the notes.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 23; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2000
- Title
- Coll 5/47 ‘Persia and the Persian Gulf: Bushire and Bandar Abbas’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:12v, 14r:22v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence