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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [13v] (26/320)
The record is made up of 1 file (158 folios). It was created in 11 Oct 1937-25 Nov 1942. 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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{Received on 27th February 1937 with Political Secretary's letter No. 6, dated
11th February 1937).
Enclosure in Foreign Office covering Note No. E. 529/214/34, dated 30th
January 1937
P. Z. 587/34.
No distribution.
Telegram form His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to His Majesty’s
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London, dated the 25th
January 1937.
My telegram No. 10, paragraph I.
For “ Isfahan ” read “ IrafShan”.
( 23 )
Despatch from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to His Majesty’s
Secretary of State for Foreign AffAiRS, London, No. 71 (264-3-37),
DATED THE 26TH FEBRUARY 1937.
I have the honour to inform you that on the afternoon of Friday, 19th
February, the Shah accompanied by the Valiahd and other royal princes
performed the ceremony of inaugurating the Northern sector of the Trans-
Iranian Railway at the still unfinished station in Tehran. I enclose a copy
of the issue* of the “ Journal de Teheran ” of the 21st February,^containing
an account of the proceedings and the speech of the Minister of Communica
tions, which summarises what has and what remains to be accomplished.
It will be seen that it is hoped to complete the Southern sector next year.
2. The ceremony seems to have been a success. The day was a Moslem
Sunday ; Tehran and the neighbouring villages were beflagged by order and
large crow r ds streamed on foot, by motorbus or other vehicle down the hand
some new boulevard which leads to the Station on the south-western out-
skirt of the city. The Station is a fine, if extravagant, building ; it stands
high and future travellers emerging from it will enjoy a wide and magnificent
panaroma of the Alborz range with Demavend dominating the North-East.
3. Only eight Europeans are said to have been invited to the ceremony
among them the three principal Directors of the Kamp-sax Consortium.
The Chief Manager of the Imperial Bank of Iran was I believe, the only Bri
tish subject to be invited. It w r as explained to the Diplomatic Corps that
their turn would come when the whole Railway was finished, but some resent
ment was felt at their exclusion by the representatives of the Scandinavian
countries in particular. Monsiei r Engell, Minister of Denmark, who resides
normally in Moscow, had made a special visit to Tehran for the occasion and
to present decorations to the Shah as well as to the principal Kampsax officials.
He can hardly have anticipated that he would not be invited to attend the
ceremony.
4. Passenger trains will not run the full Northern sector for another
three months at least. The Shah is believed to be about to visit the
South, and great efforts are certainly being made to speed up the comp
letion of the Southern Sector. The newspapers, I need hardly say, have used
the occasion to renew their tributes to the Shah’s energy and vision, and to
the confidence created by his personality without which foreign capital on
the large scale required would not have been forthcoming.
5. I enclose also some photographs from other issues of the “ Journal
de Teheran ” which give an idea of the Station at Tehran and of the scale
of the Railway.
6. I am sending a copy of this despatch to the Foreign Secretary to the
Government of India No. 33.
•Not printed. Kept with originals.
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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department), collated into yearly collections under the heading ‘Iran Series’. The original correspondence was sent by British representatives in Iran (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran) to the Foreign Office. The correspondence concerns: the announcement of laws, decrees, regulations, and budgets by the Government of Iran, the texts of which were frequently published in the newspaper Le Journal de Tehran ; reports from British consular officials covering a range of subjects, including commercial activities, foreign relations and the commercial activities of foreign individuals and companies in Iran, provincial affairs, and the activities of the Shah; in 1939 and 1940, reports concerning the impact of the Second World War on Iran, with a large number of reports from the Press Attaché to the British Legation in Tehran, reporting the dissemination of propaganda and public opinion in Iran.
At the end of the file is a single item of original correspondence, sent by the Secretary to the Government of India. Dated 24 August 1942, it announces the discontinuation of the printing of the Persia [Iran] series for the duration of the war (f 159).
A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Iranian Government laws, regulations and announcements that were published in Le Journal de Tehran .
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.
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- 1 file (158 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 160; these numbers are written in pencil 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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- front, front-i, 2r:7r, 8r:11r, 12v:14v, 16r:16v, 20r, 23r:32r, 34r:41v, 42v:48r, 50v:55r, 56r:61r, 63r:65r, 68r:69r, 71v, 75v:77v, 79r:81v, 82v:85v, 89r, 91r:91v, 92v:93r, 94v:96v, 97v:101r, 102v:108v, 115r:118r, 124r, 125r:130v, 132r:134r, 136r:139r, 141r:141v, 145r:146v, 149r:151r, 152r:153v, 154v:159v, back-i, back
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