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Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’ [14r] (27/108)
The record is made up of 1 file (52 folios). It was created in 15 Jan 1926-30 Nov 1931. 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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Copf idantial *
2) # O.So.691-r* of 19^1*
British
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
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Bushire, tho 17th October 1931.
Dear Mr*Howell,
Please refer to isy demi-official letter ho.632-3
of 30th September 1931, which enclosed a Note on The
Future of Arabia*
Persia, which attempts' on similar lines, to gire an
* appreciation of the situation p in this country when
course of the ote, when this event occurs there will not
Arabia when Bin 3aud dies or falls from power. A general
state of confusion, and decline in law and order, is,
however, likely to follow, which will doubtless cause
both Bin Baud and Resa Shah die about the same time, 1
imagine the
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.
of the day will have his
hands full.
I am sending a copy of this lettor and of the
lote to Laithwaite.
X enclose herewith a Bote on The future of
Reze »hah disappears. As 1 have pointed out in the
be a 1 break-up* of Persia, as there will probably be of
the Government of India some anxiety* If hy any chance
Yours sincerely,
sd/- T.C.Fowle*
i£« B. Hobvell'iitsq*|C.S*I»'C.I«2.,
Foreign Secretary to the Government
of India,
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Correspondence and notes relating to the law of succession in Persia [Iran], and possible events in Persia, in the event of the death of the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes:
- Correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, dated 1 March 1930, informing Government of the death in France of the ex-Shah of Persia, Ahmed Kadjar [Ahmad Qajar], along with cuttings from the French newspapers Le Temps and Le Matin , reporting on ex-Shah’s death (ff 42-45).
- A report, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy C R Dodd, Military Attaché at the British Legation, Tehran, dated 3 December 1930, on the present relations between the Shah and his army, and its bearing on the stability of the Pahlavi regime (ff 35-38).
- A report entitled The Future of Persia , written by the 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. , Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle, dated October 1931 (ff 14-30).
- The text of an interview between an American journalist called Mr James, and the Persian Prime Minister Abdolhossein Teymourtache [Teymourtash], undated. Notes from a demi-official letter enclosing the text, from Captain John Ignatius Ennis, Intelligence Officer at the Baluchistan Intelligence Bureau in Quetta, dated 12 August 1931, also give details of James’ impressions of his visit to Russia (ff 3-12).
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- 1 file (52 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 54; 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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- Coll 28/33 ‘Persia., Internal. Probable happenings on the death of the Shah.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:6v, 13r:41v, 44r:53v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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