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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [14r] (27/644)
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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Imperial Airways. Whether the offer became an accomplished fact was
immaterial. The important point was that it should be made. At the same time
he deprecated a suggestion that had been made by Imperial Airways that they
should offer to fill the breach made by Junkers’ disappearance by running a
Bagdad-Tehran service for three months without subsidy. His Majesty’s
Government considered, however, that this offer would not only indicate too great
— a dependence upon the Persian coast route, and thereby whet the appetite of the
i'ersian Government, but would amount to paying a commercial price for the use
of the route, which would in its way be as objectionable as paying a political
price. His Majesty’s Government were also beginning to incline to the view that
the Arab coast route possessed unsuspected advantages, especially as it had been
discovered that it could be operated by land machines, and thought that the cost
of transfer would be no greater, and probably less, than the cost of a subsidy.
136. His Majesty’s Minister was therefore instructed to deliver the
message originally proposed. This was a matter of some delicacy, as
Teymourtache had unquestionably thought throughout that His Majesty’s
Government were willing to discuss the question of Imperial Airways along with
the questions involved in the general treaty, and had probably granted the two
months’ extension from the 31st March to the 31st May in the belief that His
Majesty’s Government were considering his suggestion for a continuance of
Imperial Airways in return for a voluntary relinquishment of Henjam. The
question was yet further complicated by the fact that the necessary arrangements
for the transfer of the air route to the Arab coast were still incomplete, and that
a final extension of Imperial Airways’ permission was required, if possible, to
the 1st October.
137. After these difficulties had been considered by His Majesty’s
Government, the message was delivered on the 22nd May, a request for a four
months’ extension being made at the same time. Teymourtache was told that,
though the decision to move was definite, His Majesty’s Government would expect
to receive the same facilities as other Powers if in the future the Arab coast
route failed to come up to expectations. He received the communication without
comment, and undertook to consult the Council of Ministers about the four
months’ extension. This was granted three days later. It is possible that the
refusal to link Imperial Airways with the treaty in general or Henjam in
particular may have convinced Teymourtache that His Majesty’s Government
were not so dependent on Persian goodwill as he had supposed. It is equally
possible that the fact that he had got rid of Imperial Airways without having to
give any sort of promise about Henjam may have encouraged him to think that
he could as easily get rid of Henjam in due course.
138. At this meeting (the seventh) the nature of the facilities required by
His Majesty’s Government at Henjam was discussed in some detail, and His
Majesty’s Minister endeavoured to show not only that these were entirely
commonplace, involving nothing in the nature of a base, but also that there was no
reason why the Persian and British fleets should not share the advantages that
Henjam afforded. Teymourtache made it pretty clear that if something could
be done to satisfy Persian amour-yropre over Bahrein (he kept reverting to Tamb,
which His Majesty’s Minister kept repeating was out of the question), Henjam
should present no difficulty. His Majesty’s Minister in turn made it clear that
without Henjam there was no prospect of His Majesty’s Government concluding
a treaty. The discussion revolved on these lines for some hours, without any
definite result, but, at the end, Teymourtache took a pencil and scribbled what
he called “ all sorts of nonsense ” to the following effect:—
{a) Frontier rectification in Baluchistan.
\b) Payment by His Majesty’s Government to the Persian Government of
some of "the income tax derived from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
(c) Assistance in the purchase of military aeroplanes.
(d) A promise of assistance in the purchase of warships, if the Persian
Government added to their squadron, which was not their present
intention. *i .v. .
(e) A promise of goodwill in the event of the Persian Government wishing
to raise a foreign loan in the future.
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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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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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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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