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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [25v] (50/644)
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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that the president, after sending both parties the usual telegram expressing
confidence that neither would allow anything to occur to extend or aggravate the
situation, should also direct the Acting Secretary-General of the League to send
a special telegram to the Persian Government, saying that the president
interpreted the declaration contained in the Persian representative’s letter of the
17th December “as an undertaking by the Persian Government to avoid any
modification of the present state of things which might aggravate the dispute/®* ^
and that a formal Council meeting should then be held to take note of ther^
above action.
270. The meeting of the Council duly took place on the evening of the
19th December, and the president read out the telegrams which he had sent to
both parties, together with the special telegram to the Persian Government
referred to above, at the same time repeating his hope that nothing would be done
by either party to aggravate the situation.
271. Sir W. Malkin, who, in Sir John Simon’s absence through
indisposition, acted as United Kingdom delegate, explained why His Majesty’s
Government in the United Kingdom regarded the question as urgent; and,
having expressed the hope that nothing would occur to render the earlier
intervention of the Council necessary, submitted that His Majesty’s Government
might fairly expect that the case of the Persian Government would reach the
Secretary-General in time to allow the Council to take it into consideration at its
next session, which was due to begin on the 23rd January.
272. The Persian delegate, on telegraphic instructions which he had
received from his Government immediately before the Council met, made an
anodyne statement, repeating his Government’s previous assurances regarding
the maintenance of the status quo, and expressing the desire of the Persian
Government to maintain friendly relations with His Majesty’s Government. He
ended by expressing ‘ £ purely personally ’ ’ some doubt as to whether the matter
really necessitated invocation of article 15 of the Covenant. The Council agreed
that the question should be placed on the agenda of the session beginning on the
23rd January, the president intimating, in his concluding remarks, that the fact
that the dispute had been brought before the Council did not preclude the
possibility of discussions between the two parties meanwhile.
273. On the 20th December the Secretary-General of the League received
a telegram from the Persian Government acknowledging the receipt of the
telegram he had addressed to them on the 18th December, and stating that the
Persian Government, in cancelling the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s concession,-
“ had no intention of creating a dispute with His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom under article 15 of the Covenant.” After repeating the
Persian Government’s previous statement regarding its right to cancel the
concession and its willingness to reach an equitable settlement with the company,
the telegram added that the Persian Government would not fail to send a special
delegate to Geneva to submit its case to the Council, and that meanwhile the
Secretary-General of the League might be assured that ‘ ‘ the Persian Govern
ment would continue to abstain from any act calculated to aggravate or extend
the alleged dispute.”
274. In the meanwhile the Persian Minister in London had made more than
one attempt, but without success, to induce Sir John Cadman to agree to the
resumption of direct negotiations in Tehran and to go there himself. Ansari’s
failure in this respect may have been responsible for the fact that he was recalled
to Tehran very shortly afterwards, although another explanation popular in
Tehran is that he had been suborned by His Majesty’s Government or the Anglo-
Persian Oil Company to delay the publication of the Persian case in the London
press, and had thus enabled His Majesty’s Government (it is not quite clear how)
to get in first at Geneva.
(D) Church Missionary Society.
275. At the end of 1931 the society had been successful in securing
recognition for their schools in Persia, without which they would have suffered
various disadvantages, even if they were allowed to keep open at all, e.g., pupils
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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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