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Coll 29/6 'Mohammerah and Khorramshahr: vice consulate and consulate appointments' [‎65r] (132/470)

The record is made up of 1 file (232 folios). It was created in 9 Apr 1931-4 Sep 1948. 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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COPY
(K 20000/742/234)
GOHFloKNTIAL
V
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British Embassy,
Tehran,
29 th October, 1945-
Dear Baxter,
There is a small matter which, for the sake of my
successor and in the interests of good administration, ought
to be cleared up, viz. the relations between H.M. Consul-
General at Bushire, who when outside Persia is also Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and H.M. Consul at Khorramshahr.
2. When I arrived, six years ago, Khorramshahr was a
Vice-Consulate held by an officer of the Indian Political
Department who was subordinate to a Foreign Office Consul at
Ahwaz. I was entirely ignorant about the relationship between
Bushire and Khorramshahr, but when H.M. Consul at Ahwaz
assumed that it was his duty to deal with the question of the
construction of a new consulate at Khorramshahr, I found that
the finances of Khorramshahr were under Bushire and therefore
ruled that it was for H.M. Consul-General at Bushire to see
about the proposed building., I did however question Prior’s
right to blow into Khorramshahr without notice to Ahwaz.
Prior produced a letter from a predecessor of mine dated (I
think) 1926, agreeing that the Consul-General at Bushire
might visit Khorramshahr when he wished, for the discussion
q of matters of common interest. I reminded Prior that a good
deal of water had flowed under the Persian bridge since 1926,
but said that I should not raise any objection to the practice
so long as the war lasted. I suggested however that good
official manners required him to send a polite telegram to
Ahwaz announcing any forthcoming visit to Khorramshahr and
expressing the hope that there would be no objection; where
upon he would receive a polite approval. I do not think that
Prior agreed with me on this point, though subse 1 uent inquiry
showed that my suggestion accorded with his predecessor’s
practice; but the point ceased to have any practical import
ance because Khorrarashahr was made into an independent
consulate for the period of the war.
3. No further difficulty arose until towards the end of
1944 when a complicated ad hoc arrangement was made to employ
a former Military Attache, Colonel Underwood, to stimulate the
local police in Khuzistan, especially at Abadan, for the
immediate and future benefit of the A.I.O.C. Stewart, H.M.
Consul at Khorramshahr, came to Tehran to discuss the project
with the Embassy and the British Military authorities, and
after his return to his post I sent him draft proposals asxing
for his views. He demurred to one or two points. He seems
to have sent copies of the correspondence to Prior, and I
received from Prior a letter criticising the proposals (about
whose background he knew nothing) and expressing the view that
Stewart had written very raildiy. I returned the letter to
Prior with the suggestion that it should be considered as not
^-^having been sent. I received no answer, but when I met Prior
not sipng afterwards I spoke of the letter, he said that he had
looked up the correspondence and finding that it was not clear
g that he had a right to intervene he had decided to ’’pipe down”.
.That
> C.'.'/.Baxter, Esq.., C.M.G. , M.C.

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The file concerns appointments at the Vice-Consulate (later Consulate) at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran].

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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 Government of India; 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 Viceroy; the Secretary of State for India; the British Consulates at Ahwaz, and Mohammerah; British Petroleum; the Royal Norwegian Legation to London; the British Minister at Tehran.

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1 file (232 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 233; 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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