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Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’ [‎6v] (23/1174)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (583 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1930-1 Feb 1937. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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7 It is noteworthy also that when a deadlock appeared to have) been
reached in January in the negotiations at Bagdad the ®° ve , ,
seemed to have conceived that appeal to the Shah could best be d e g
Angora and the Turkish Ambassador in Iran. And it will be remembered
that alter Persia had defined her own frontier with Turkey, the Persian
and Afghan Governments invited a Turkish general to preside over he
arbitral commission to fix the Perso-Afghan frontier, and that the lurk
discharged this duty with success.
8 . The reason underlying the Turco-Iranian rapproachement is no doubt
to be found not merely in contiguity of territory or a common faith, but
largely in the Shah’s conviction that Turkey and Iran are wayfarers on the
same road of progress towards westernisation. Both have included m their
programmes dress reform, language reform, the destruction of the power o
the clergy, the substitution of a national spirit for a national religion, apart
from increase in armaments, and improvement of communications which, of
course, are in no sense peculiar to these two countries. Nevertheless, to
call the Iranian method a mere slavish imitation of the Turkish would, I
believe, be less than the truth. I prefer to think that the Shah regards
Turkey as a kind of pilot engine and hopes that, should there be a bomb on
the line to westernisation, the sight of Atatiirk ascending skywards might
enable Reza Shah to apply his brakes in time.
9. In the light of the above it is difficult to grudge Turkey the position
of best friend. From this friendship the Shah may well hope, also to get
some insurance against Turkey’s ally, Soviet Russia, and even to exert
greater influence on Iraq. Against this friendship between the heads of
the two States must be set the age-long hostility between the two countries
and the intense resentment felt in many parts of Iran, notably round Tabriz,
against Turkey as an ineradically barbarous State responsible for the un
wanted changes now being forced upon a far more civilised country.
10 . I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassador
at Angora.
I have, etc.
NEVILE BUTLER,
(67)
Letter from His Majesty’s Charge d’affaires, Tehran, to the Foreign
Office, London, No. C. A. -74, dated the 10th July 1936.
A German 3-engined Junkers commercial aeroplane arrived in Tehran
on June 30th and left for Afghanistan after a week’s stay. The local
press reported that the object of the visit was the study of meteorological
conditions.
2 . The Japanese Minister told Simmonds that he thought the German
plane was studying conditions for an eventual service between Berlin and
Urumchi via, Ankara, Baghdad, Tehran and Kabul. At Urumchi con
nection would be made with a further service to Shanghai. He said the
Germans had been granted by the Chinese Government the concession for an
air service from Europe to China, but the Soviets had refused to allow the
German service to operate over Soviet territory. The proposed route was
interesting from a political and propaganda viewpoint, but was unlikely
to be remunerative.
3. Pybus has heard a similar story from the French Military Attach^ so
there may be something in it. Walker agrees too that the Germans are pro
bably wanting to run an air service through here and that the present trip
is in the nature of a meteorological survey; but he has no information as to
the proposed route after Kabul.

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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), the Foreign Office, and 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 correspondence concerns: the announcement by the Persian Government of laws, decrees, regulations, budgets, and other governmental communiqués, the texts of which were usually published in Persian newspapers (including Le Journal de Tehran , Shafaq-e-Surkh , Le Messenger de Teheran and Iran ); reports on provincial affairs in Persia, chiefly in the form of reports submitted by British Consuls; Persia’s foreign relations, particularly those with Soviet Russia [Soviet Union, USSR]; correspondence dated 1929 and 1930 reporting on events in northern Persia (Azerbaijan and Khorasan) where large numbers of Russian refugees settled in the wake of the October Revolution; copies of diplomatic exchanges between the British Legation in Tehran and the Persian Government, the latter represented by figures including the Persian Prime Minister Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi, the Minister of the Court of Iran Abdolhossein Teymourtash, and Hassan Ali Ghaffari of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the activities of the Shah, with a particular focus on his modernisation policies that were implemented across Persia during the 1930s.

A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Persian Government laws, Persian newspaper articles, and correspondence from Persian politicians. The file also includes a memorandum on the Persian renderings of ‘imperial’ that contains Persian text (ff 305-306).

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 volume (583 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 579; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English, French and Persian in Latin and Arabic script
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