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Coll 29/19 'Procedure for appointment and recognition of consular officers in Persia: Persian rule of one consul only per post; passports for military officers posted to Persia' [178r] (355/643)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 12 Jul 1929-21 Sep 1938. 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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Note of a conversation on the 16th August 1934 between
Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Loch, Acting x olit i cal Heal dent
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and hirza Hussein Khan Ala, Persian
Minister Designate to London,
/
/ • ■
On the 16th August 1934 1 attended a farewell dinner on
his departure from Tehran to London to Mirza Hussein -.nan
Ala, and after a ner had, owing to the chance of most of the
guests playing bridge, a long conversation with him, 1 do
not think that this was premeditated,
2. After a few courtesies, he opened the subject of our
relatione with Persia, saying how important it was that there
should be friendly relations and that it seemed that British
officials in the oouth had perhaps not fully realised the
changes which had taken place in the last few years and that
it was necessary to cultivate a spirit of frendliness,
I replied that it was clear that a stable Persia with a good
administration was (to put it on its lowest basis-that of
| our own interests) most important to us* that I was sure
| that we in the South perfectly appreciated the changed
;; conditions and, indeed, that our experience of the growth of
I 1 v
: a similar national feeling in India ana the Indian States
| (though naturally in very different circumstances) enabled us
1.
to understand and sympathise with such developments,
I then took the opportunity of say tag that we were
placed in a difficult position. The only person who was
allowed to speak to me at all was the Governor and that X did
not see much even of him and that I should like, for example,
when the Senior Naval Officer (or any of our sloops) visited
Bushire and a Persian warship was there also, to be able
freely to ask the Captain and officers of the Persian ship
to meet them, either at dinner or for & game of tennis.
He said that this isolation was due to the old days when the
various
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The file concerns the appointment and recognition of British Consular officers in Persia by the Persian Government, who were not willing to recognise by the grant of an exequatur more than one Consular Officer at any one post.
The file contains internal correspondence about and with subjects appointed. The correspondence regards suitability of the candidates, terms of employment, discussions on pay and starting dates.
The file covers:
- appointment of acting Vice-Consul at Duzdap, in 1929
- Persian proposal for appointment of British Consular officers in Persia
- procedure for the appointment of honorary Vice-Consuls in Persia
- appointment of G A Jacob as Vice-Consul at Yezd [Yazd]
- appointment of a military officer, Military Attaché Stefeni, with rank of Vice Consul in Meshed, in 1930
- appointment of Trenchard Craven William Fowle as Consul at Bushire, in 1930
- officers' recognition by the Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Persian initial refusal to grant exequatur to Consuls Daly and Pyper, and request that officers of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India should not be employed in Persia
- appointment of Woods Ballard as Consul at Bushire, in 1935
- employment of officers of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India in Iran
- designations to be shown on passports of military doctors and military officers, when posted to Iran.
The file is composed of correspondence between the Foreign Office, the 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. , the Viceroy, the Government of India, the British Legation at Tehran, and 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. .
The file also contains documents in French, correspondence between the British Legation at Tehran and the Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
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- 1 file (320 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 321; 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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- Title
- Coll 29/19 'Procedure for appointment and recognition of consular officers in Persia: Persian rule of one consul only per post; passports for military officers posted to Persia'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:184v, 187r:188v, 190r:221v, 223r:313v, 316r:321v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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