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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [62v] (124/320)
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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Article 15. —Decree No. 8921 of 11th Mehr 1315, is hereby cancelled.
Article 16. —The Ministry of Commerce will be responsible for the execu
tion of this Law.
N. B. —Where “ Insurance Companies ” or “ Insurance Firms ” is used,
please substitute “ Institutions ”,
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{Received on 19th December 1937 with Political Secretary's letter No. 48, dated the
2nd December 1937.)
[Enclosure in Weekly Letter No. 48, dated the 2nd December 1937, from
Secretary, Political and Secret Department,
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.
.]
(E. 6604/212/34).
Letter from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office,
London, No. 586/4/37, dated the 21 st October 1937.
In his letter to you No. 586/2/37 of the 9th October, about the sale of
foreign aircraft in Iran, the Minister wrote that nothing had been heard here
of the purchase of any Italian aeroplanes. Since that was written, the Military
Attache had heard various things which bear out the Air Ministry’s report of an
Italian drive in the sale of aircraft in this country.
2. First, the French Military Attache told Pybus that the Afghan
Government had placed an order with Italy for 28 Savoia Marchetti bombers.
100,000 lire, or a quarter of the price, was to be paid in cash for each machine.
The balance was to be paid in kind—chiefly cotton. Delivery would take
place within one year. Was it not possible, he asked, that as her three friends
Afghanistan, Iraq and Turkey had all been buying Italian machines, Iran
might follow suit ?
3. This suggestion received some substantiation when a few days later
Pybus heard from the Turkish Military Attache that the Italians had offered
aeroplanes (the thought Savoia Marchetti Bombers) to the Iranians more
cheaply than any other country could supply machines of a similar perfor
mance. The Turkish Military Attache had asked the Italian Naval Attache
whether this was so, and the latter had admitted the truth of the report.
The Italians had told the Iranians that these machines, unlike British products*
had been specially designed and constructed for countries like Iran where
rough landing grounds made extra strong undercarriages necessary and where
the great distances between landing grounds required extra petrol to be carried.
The Turkish Military Attache cited these two “ specialities ” as evidence of
Italian artfulness. What undercarriages were heavier or stronger than those
normally fitted to British aircraft ? Again, he said, any fool could add an
outsize petrol tank.
4. If the Iranian Government get an offer of aeroplanes with only a quar
ter of the price payable in cash, as the Afghans are alleged to have, they can
hardly fail to find this an attractive proposition.
5. I am sending copies of this letter to Scott at Bagdad and Macann
at Kabul.'
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India No. 232 (Reference Tehran despatch No. 172 of 26-10-37),
CONFIDENTIAL.
(By Safe Hand).
British Legation,
Tehran.
16th December, 1937.
Circular Despatch No. 38 (581126137).
Sir,
, fo inform you that I have received a number of enquiries relative
o e application to British firms of the recent Iranian Regulations regarding
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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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- Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’
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- 42r, 48v:49v, 61v:62v, 65v:67v, 69v:70v, 78r:78v, 86r:87r, 89v:90r, 118v:123v, 124v, 131r:131v, 142r:144v
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