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Coll 28/3(2) ‘Persia. Financial situation.’ [121v] (242/817)
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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State General Supply Corporation ^
In other connections, 1 liave mentioned certain changes made in the
functions of the State General Supply C orporation. Mr. Hansen has been
appointed Director-General of the Corporation, retaining his post as Admi
nistrator of Procurement. Mr. Hansen’s appointment was followed by (he
resignation of Mr. Brinch.
Personnel
During the past twelve months the efforts of my associates and my
self have been directed solely to making the organisation under our super
vision efficient, honest, economical, and productive of the results that the
Iranian people desire. It is needless for me to repeat that we have met
with almost insurmountable obstacles in the accomplishment of our task.
Much of our difficulty can be related to the question of personnel.
An important factor in the personnel problem is the question of salaries.
From the beginning, every Chief of Administration has been handicapped
in his work by his inability to pay the salaries which are necessary to
attract and hold good men and provide them with incentives to do their
best work. Not only have salaries been inadequate and inequitable, but
the engagement of men and the actual payment of their salaries have been
accompanied by delay, time-wasting formalities, and irritating technicalities.
Blame for the general situation should not be put on the officials of the
Personnel Administration. The trouble goes deeper. An important basic
cause is, of course, the disorder and inflation that have resulted in large
part from the War. Another important cause, however, is to be found in the
amazing tangled mass of laws and regulations that have accumulated through
the years and which at present work injustice to the employee and cripple
the Government.
Whatever progress we can make in the stabilization of prices will
help to remove the first of these basic causes. The second can be remedied
only by the Majless.
We have taken the position, which we still believe to be sound, that
we must follow two general courses:
1) We must obey and execute the laws and those regulations which
have the force of law; and
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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
- Author
- Bank Melli Iran
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