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Ext 5001/41 'PERSIA – INTERNAL (Miscellaneous despatches).' [71r] (141/248)
The record is made up of 1 file (122 folios). It was created in 21 Jun 1942-15 Mar 1946. 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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institute must open branches to provide lessons for those who find the main
building inaccessible. This cannot be done until more staff are appointed. In
the National Bank 400 members of the staff have applied to the Council for
English lessons but it is impossible to do more than supervise teaching given by
Persians and provide text-books. A British professor was offered to and accepted
by the university in December but his arrival has subsequently been cancelled.
This is the sixth time during the past year that a professor has been proposed,
^"^xccepted and withdrawn.
49. In Isfahan the new institute was formally opened on the 22nd December.
About 250 students are being taught English and 200 have joined as members
for club activities only. Lectures, concerts and exhibitions of films are held
every week as in the Tehran Institute. English in place of German is now taught
in the technical college by the institute staff.
50. In Shiraz all necessary preparations have been made for an institute
to be opened. Work will start immediately staff can be found.
51. The institute directors are making regular inspections of secondary
schools in Tehran and Isfahan and giving advice on the teaching of English.
A new Minister of Education has recently been appointed who desires to promote
the British system of education and would gladly accept British teachers in all
secondary schools. Advantage of this attitude should be taken while it exists.
52. A lecture was delivered to a large audience of doctors by Dr. Florey,
professor of pathology at Oxford, on the new drug penicillin. Miss Irene Ward,
M.P., gave lectures and met many Persians in Tehran and Isfahan. Her tour
had an excellent effect and similar tours by British visitors would be welcomed.
A number of Persians of both sexes have asked to be sent to England for study
purposes and the matter is under consideration.
53. The proposed Russian Institute in Tehran, to which reference was made
in my despatch under reference, has not yet materialised.
54. I am sending copies of this despatch to the office of the Minister of State
Resident in the Middle East, to His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow, to the
Government of India and to all consular officers in Persia.
I have, &c.
R. W. BULLARD.
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This file consists of miscellaneous dispatches relating to internal affairs in Persia [Iran] during the occupation of the country by British and Soviet troops. The file begins with references to an Anglo-Soviet-Persian Treaty of Alliance, signed in January 1942, which followed the Anglo-Soviet invasion of the country in August-September 1941.
Most of the dispatches are addressed by His Majesty's Minister (later Ambassador) at Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden). The dispatches discuss political, financial and economic affairs in Persia, as well as issues regarding road and rail transport (for the transportation of foodstuffs), food supplies and press censorship,
Related matters of discussion include the following:
- British concerns regarding the extent and effect of Axis propaganda in Persia and the Persian Government's response to it.
- Relations between the Shah [Muhammad Reza Khan] and successive Persian prime ministers, and the power and influence of the Majlis deputies.
- Anglo-Persian relations, and British concerns regarding Soviet policy in Persia.
- The Persian press's response to the Allied occupation.
- The Tehran conference in late November 1943, attended by Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D Roosevelt, who were also present at a dinner at the British Legation, held in celebration of Churchill's 69th birthday (also discussed is the naming of three streets in Tehran, after Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt respectively).
- The tribal situation in Persia.
- The raising of the status of the British Legation in Tehran to that of British Embassy in February 1943.
- The United States' interests in Persia.
- The status of Polish evacuees in Persia.
- The work of the British Council in Persia.
- The question of the withdrawal of Allied troops from Persia.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folio 1).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (122 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 for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 124; 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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- Ext 5001/41 'PERSIA – INTERNAL (Miscellaneous despatches).'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:8v, 10r:123v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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