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Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’ [348v] (696/845)
The record is made up of 1 file (421 folios). It was created in 21 Jul 1930-3 May 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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the German wife of an Iranian, her husband and her German father. Next day,
his friend in the police had rung him up and told him that the Germans in
question were anti-Nazi, that they were watched by the‘German Gestapo, who
had noted and reported his party to the Iranian police. Unfortunately, the Shah
was an admirer of Herr Hitler!
8. My informant made some further remarks about internal affairs. Like / ^ s
all those with whom I have recently talked, he is pessimistic at the present
situation, economic as well as financial; there is no planning and no check on
over-spending on ill-judged projects, and he foresees no change in this while His
Imperial Majesty remains alive and controlling the situation. Hitherto, His
Imperial Majesty had had the support of the merchant community, who remember
that he crushed not only the country “ barons,” but the city “ barons ” too, like
the Qharagozlus of Hamadan, who had excessive control of the cities; and the
merchants had been doing tolerably well lately by investing in the Government
and semi-Government companies. But the increasing weight of taxation and the
deteriorating condition of many of the Government companies was having its
efiect on the sentiment of the merchant community. The intelligentsia were
definitely being held down, and over 150 students were in prison in Tehran.
9. My informant shared the general disappointment at the way the Valiahd
was developing; he did not anticipate a Communist regime in Iran, but he did
think that the next form of Government would be a strongly leftward form of
democracy.
10. The above are the views given me by a patriotic and Nationalist Iranian.
I will comment only on his last point. The view generally held here is that the
Shah's effective support is the army, and that the army will determine the form
of Government that succeeds him. This seems probable. Whoever secures the
support of the army may, or may not, wish to secure also civilian and political
support from some quarter. There would not, I think, at present be any
unanimous feeling among my colleagues here that in this contingency the army
leaders would seek it from the democratic left.
11. I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Moscow.
I have, &c.
NEVILE BUTLER.
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Papers concerning affairs on the northeast frontiers of Persia [Iran], with a focus on Iranian Azerbaijan, sent to and from British Government officials based in Persia, including those at the British Consulate at Tabriz and the British Embassy in Tehran, and the Foreign Office in London.
The correspondence covers the following:
- Throughout the period June 1930 to July 1931 (ff 379-421), the situation on the Perso-Russian and Perso-Turkish borders, and relations in the region between Persia and Russia. These papers predominantly comprise reports from the British Consul at Tabriz (Clarence Edward Stanhope Palmer).
- During October and November 1932, calls to boycott the elections to the new Persian majlis by an organisation describing itself as the Nationalist Organisation of Azerbaijan (ff 368-378). Papers include a translation of a manifesto issued by the organisation (ff 369-370).
- In 1935, reports responding to rumours of civil unrest in Tabriz (ff 357-363).
- In 1938, deteriorating relations between Iran and Russia, partly in response to Russia’s unease at an increase in trade between Germany and Iran (ff 337-352).
- The political crisis brought about by the declaration of the Azerbaijan People’s Government in November 1945, and the ensuing Iran-Azerbaijan Crisis, which arose from Soviet Russia’s refusal to relinquish Iranian territory originally occupied by Russia during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941 (ff 4-336). Papers include a declaration (in French) made by the National Congress of Iranian Azerbaijan (ff 259-260), and the translated texts of programmes and laws announced by the Azerbaijan National Government (ff 207-209, f 92, ff 77-79, ff 61-63).
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- 1 file (421 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 422; 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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- Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:60v, 64r:76v, 80r:91v, 93r:124v, 127r:139v, 146r:152v, 155r:206v, 210r:240v, 244r:259v, 262r:354v, 356r:368v, 371r:376v, 379r:422v, back
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