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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [10r] (19/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. 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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things in it he did not much like; it was, however, agreed that these points should
be left for the technical discussions at Bagdad.
100. At this time the Persian Government were being pressed to arrange for
Mr. Carroll’s visit to Basra to take place in time for their negotiator, the Minister
of Justice, to be able to begin discussions at Bagdad on the 20th May (later altered
J^the 27th May, owing to the unexpected retention of Sir Francis Humphrys at
. Aieva). The day before the Minister of Justice was due to start, however, they
were informed that the Iraqi negotiators, the Prime Minister and Minister of
Finance, were both ill and wished to postpone the negotiations until the autumn.
This request, though eventually accepted, unquestionably dismayed the Persian
Government, who suspected some ulterior motive. They had also been anxious
that the board should be established before the mandate ended, a point to which
His Majesty’s Government also once attached importance.
101. This feeling led the Persian Government early in June to inform the
Iraqi Government that if the negotiations were postponed until after the entry
of Iraq into the League, Persia would be debarred by article 10 of the Covenant
from raising the question of the frontier in the Shatt-el-Arab and near
Khanaqin; they therefore proposed, by a communication to the Secretary-
General, to reserve the right to deal with these questions after Iraq’s admittance.
This attitude was based on a misunderstanding of the effect of article 10, but the
Iraqi Government returned a soothing answer that the postponement in no way
altered their desire to reach a satisfactory settlement of these questions, and no
more was heard of the matter.
102. On his return from Geneva early in November Sir Francis Humphrys
wrote to Teymourtache saying that he looked forward to discussing with the new
Minister the convention for a tripartite conservancy board, and reminding him of
a suggestion made in the spring that his Highness should come for a cruise in the
Shatt-el-Arab and study the points at issue for himself.
103. Later in the same month the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs
passed through Bagdad and begged Sir Francis Humphrys to carry out the
promise made by His Majesty’s Government and use his influence with the Iraqi
Government to secure the alteration of the frontier in the Shatt-el-Arab from the
left bank to the median line. He was told that His Majesty’s Government, though
they had never undertaken to encourage frontier rectification, had certainly
expressed their willingness to facilitate a solution of the Shatt-el-Arab problem,
and for this reason had sponsored the scheme for a tripartite conservancy board,
which would give Persia in practice all that she required, and which had been
accepted in principle by the Minister of Court in the spring. Feroughi still
seemed unsatisfied, and it appeared that he had also raised the question with the
Iraqi Government, who later expressed some anxiety as to their neighbour’s
intentions.
104. At the end of the year the question was in abeyance, the Persian
Minister in Bagdad confining his attention to the other agreements under
negotiation between the two countries.
Shatt-el-Arab {General).
105. The only serious case of interference by Persian officials with vessels in
Iraqi waters reported during the year occurred in April, when Mr. Bernard, the
harbour-master at Abadan Reach, who was travelling in a motor-launch at least
100 yards away from the Persian shore, was called upon to stop by two Persian
soldiers on the bank, who threatened to fire if he refused. Mr. Bernard went to
the bank, and one of the soldiers jumped into the launch and ordered him to
proceed to the Persian police headquarters at Abadan. Mr. Bernard, however,
took the soldier to the Hormaq, whence he was later handed over to the Persian
authorities.
106. The British employees of the Basra Port Trust living on the Hormaq,
the hulk belonging to the trust that is moored just off the Persian shore, but in
Iraqi waters, at Abadan Reach, were placed in a most difficult situation owing
to the refusal of the Persian authorities early in the year to let them land without
visas. As annual visas were unobtainable, and as the employees required to go
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
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 (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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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 321; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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