Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [‎31r] (61/154)

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The first part of the file (ff 52-75) contains correspondence dated 1932, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; John Gilbert Laithwaite of 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. ; George William Rendel of the Foreign Office; Cecil Claude Farrer of the Department of Overseas Trade. The correspondence is in response to a memorandum entitled ‘Economic characteristics of Russian trade with the South of Persia compared with British’, written by the Probationer Vice-Consul at Bushire, J W Blanch (ff 71-72).

The second part of the file (ff 23-51) contains correspondence dated 1933, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran; 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 Foreign Office. The correspondence concerns the need for clear and regular despatches from Tehran on commercial relations between Soviet Russia and Persia. This part of the file contains a memorandum entitled ‘Effects of the Persian Trade Monopoly Laws and the Perso-Soviet Treaty upon Soviet commercial penetration in Persia’ (ff 34-40). The memorandum is undated and its author not stated. However, it bears annotations made by George Edmund Crombie of 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. , which are dated 3 March 1933.

The third part of the file (ff 2-22) contains a letter dated 15 December 1926 enclosing two notes (also 1926) written by Reginald Teague-Jones. The notes were forwarded, in 1945, by John Walter Hose, formerly of 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. , to Roland Tennyson Peel of 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 notes are entitled ‘Soviet Commercial Policy in Persia’ (ff 5-14) and ‘The Crucial Problem in Soviet Russia’ (ff 15-22). The accompanying letter (f 4) is signed under Teague-Jones’s pseudonym Ronald Sinclair.

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 (74 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 76; 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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