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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎37r] (73/644)

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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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414. Dr. Lindenblatt was still in Tehran under interrogation at the end of
the year. There was little doubt that there was sufficient material to convict him
of fraud, but the Persian authorities hesitated to bring him before the courts
for fear that they might lose the benefit of a possible private arrangement whereby
the doctor would voluntarily return a portion of his illgotten gains. The
counsellor of the German Legation actually informed a member of the staff
/*His Majesty’s Legation in this connexion that Dr. Lindenblatt had offered the
Persian Government 200,000 reichsmarks, or, roughly, £22,000, to be allowed to
go free.
New Road Tax Law.
415. A new Road Tax Law, to come into force at the end of September and
replacing the original Road Tax Law of the 6th February, 1926, was passed by
the Majlis on the 30th August.
416. As was the case with the old law, a scale of taxation is laid down on
the gross weight of imports and exports. The latter are to benefit by an export
bonus system, while the former are to provide the increase in revenue which is
expected from the new law.
417. Higher taxes mainly affect the luxuries, the import of which is
prohibited under the Trade Monopoly Law, so that the general public remain
unaffected, but they will result in an appreciable increase in the cost of living of
His Majesty’s consular officers and the employees of the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company, who, in the south, cannot do without a variety of imported food-stuffs
and other “ luxuries.” The resident director of the company estimates that this
increase in taxation will affect it to the extent of £40,000 a year, in spite of its
greatly reduced staff.
418. On the subject of the export bonus His Majesty’s Minister reported
as follows in his despatch No. 391 of the 10th September
“ I have been in some doubt whether or not to protest against the
principle of the export bonus, such a bonus being contrary to the spirit of
article 3 of the Tariff Autonomy Treaty of 1928 and not provided for under
the exchange of letters enclosed in Tehran despatch No. 238 of the 23rd May,
1928. I have decided not to do so pending an expression of the views of His
Majesty’s Government. Past experience shows that the Persian Govern
ment are never at a loss to find arguments to satisfy themselves that the
action they have taken can be legally justified, and the cumulative result of
ineffective protests is not good. Furthermore, the practical effect of export
bonuses should be an automatic increase of imports in a country where the
whole machinery of government is directed to making the volume of imports
depend on that of exports. Teymourtache would undoubtedly maintain that
this being theoretically indisputable, we had, as importers, nothing to
complain about. .... ^ j i • ^
“As is frequently the case when a measure of doubtful wisdom or
questionable legality is introduced, the export bonus is being represented as
a weapon to be used against the Soviet Government, the idea being that the
bonus will not be given in respect of Russian purchases for export in cases
where it is established that the Soviet purchasing agencies have, by the
exercise of the means of pressure which they command, obtained their goods
unduly cheap.”
419. Article 6 of the law stipulates that the revenue from these road taxes
is to be allotted as follows :
2,606,607 rials to public instruction,
724,130 rials to sanitary institutions,
878,800 rials to charitable institutions,
5,000,000 rials to the Tehran Municipality,
3,000,000 rials to provincial municipalities,
and the balance, minus 3 per cent, for costs of collection, to the Road Fund.
[8706] F 4

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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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