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Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [‎49r] (97/154)

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The record is made up of 1 file (74 folios). It was created in 10 Oct 1932-21 Feb 1945. 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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I called on Sartlp Ayrom yesterday and he again spoke at
length about Soviet propaganda in Persia*
He began the conversation by saying "How long are the
JSuropean powers going to allow the Soviet to carry on their
propaganda so freely? w I asked him whether his remark Implied
that he had obtained further information about their activities
in this country* He then stated that as a result of the discovery
some weeks ago of the espionage system in Tehran and also as a
result of the deportation of Soviet agents, their former organ
isation had been fairly effectively broken, but that they were
busy forming another intelligence and propaganda system* He
repeated that the whole Soviet representation in this country,
from the Ambassador to the humblest officials in their trade
offices were all active propaganda agents* He was doing his best
to impress this fact on the Persian Government, but they seemed
extremely reluctant to believe it* He had found Feroughi part
icularly difficult to persuade, but he was glad to say that he
thought that the lhah was beginning to realise the real state
of affairs. He had been requested on one or two occasions to
attend meetings at which Teymourtache, Davar and the Minister
for Foreign Affairs were present, to explain his case and produce
proofs. He thought he had succeeded to a certain extent, but
the Ministers were still very anxious to avoid friction with the
Russians. He would give the following example of the extent to
which the Soviet agents could influence the Ministers* At a
meeting held a little while ago between the Soviet Ambassador,
Teymourtache and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, it had been
decided that Soviet trade agents in this country should obtain
their permis de sliour from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
and not from the Police. This meant that the Police would have

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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)
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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 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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