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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [57r] (113/320)
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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4. He now estimates that his compromise would involve 5% increase in the
cost of chief office and perhaps more in branches. Were correspondence included
increase could hardly reach 10%.
5. Very confidential—W\]\ you bear in mind that Anglo Iranian Oil Company
0 * undoubtedly fear that relaxation they may secure will be claimed forthwith by
T other institutions ?
Enclosure V to Serial No. (90).
Telegram from Mr. Butler (Tehran), No. 19-Saving, dated 2 nd November
1937.
My telegram No. 140. Hunng the summer the London Board recommended
Tehran Manager to lodge protest. He deprecated this after discussion with His
Majesty’s Minister preferring to try to negotiate a compromise. This he has in
outline with the help of the Minister oi .1 ustice. London Board have sanction
ed this compromise in last resort but wish him first to consult His Majesty's
Minister with a view to protest.
2. Tehran Manager tells me that regulations will undoubtedly involve more
labour and expense and are likely to involve less accurate auditing. They are not
however impossible and if proposed compromise is accepted by Iranian authorities
“ compliance in full ” would be very substantially reduced. It would be confined
to those officially sealed books which a bank is bound to keep and produce if neces
sary in a court of law and which it is not unreasonable that a bank practising in
Iran should keep in Persian language.
3. As regards protest we know of no legal ground for it; we could not maintain
that compliance was impossible and the bank could only plead ground of domestic
loss of efficiency. This argument is much more likely to appeal to Iranian Gov
ernment if advanced by Oil Company in whose efficiency and profits they are
directly interested.
4. Manager believes that protest would be unavailing and forfeiting goodwill
of Iranian authorities impair his position for many months. The regulations have
been sanctified by the Shah : the Prime Minister has said that no exceptions can
be made, i.e., that none will be authorised in writing. In so far as registrations
obtained in unwritten compromise may be (grp. omtd.) I believe His Majesty’s
Minister would in the circumstances consider the best procedure that bank should
rest upon their outline compromise between now and March (while Oil Company
see what they can secure independently) consequently would deprecate a protest
now supported by His Majesty’s Government.
(91)
Letter from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office, London,
No. 447, dated 4th December 1937. I
I have the honour to inform you that since the end of the summer a number
of high officials in Pars, including the Governor-General and the General Officer
Commanding, have been dismissed from their posts. The late Governor-General,
Abul Path Dowlatshahi, is a Qajar prince who probably owed his appointment to
his relationship to the second Pahlevi Queen. He is a gambler and spendthrift,
and went to Shiraz in 1936 loaded with debt. During the eighteen months in
Pars he did little but make money as fast as he could. In collision with the
General Officer Commanding, General Zandieh, he took seven hundred rials per
family from the tribes of Pars, who were then allowed to migrate as usual, while
reports were sent to Tehran that they had all been settled in houses. In the month
of August alone the Governor-General was said to have received, 60,000 rials from
the butchers of Shiraz in return for permission to increase the price of meat. At
the end of August he was hurriedly summoned to Tehran, where he is believed to
have been put under arrest. The house which he occupied at Shiraz was seized
by the police, but was later returned to its owner, who refused to lease it anv
longer to the Governorate-General. A few weeks before N. Dowlatshahi's
fall, M. Ali Asghar Soheily, brother of the Iranian Minister in London, had been
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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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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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