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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [78v] (156/644)
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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363. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs explained in reply that the
concession had never been intended to apply to persons of Asiatic race and of
the Mahometan religion, but only to British subjects of European descent, among
whom a few “ hard cases ” might be found. They expressed their inability to
make any exception about the surrender of immovable property, and denied that
any conditions were attached to the acceptance of petitions : all that happened
was that the police, in the exercise of the discretion which they possessed
regarding all foreigners, might in many cases think that a foreigner who
deliberately cast aside Persian nationality was not a desirable person to have in
Persia. Finally, they maintained that most of the persons who had submitted
petitions had no connexion whatever with the homes of their ancestors, were
completely identified with Persia and ought by all standards to be Persian
subjects.
364. His Majesty’s Legation admitted that there might be some force in
the last argument, but repeated that if these were the views of the Persian
Government they should never have pretended to grant a concession.
365. This attitude forced His Majesty’s Legation to warn all petitioners in v
July that the conditions with which the police had threatened them as regards
their property and deportation were confirmed by the Central Government, and
to suggest to them that they should consider carefully whether they would not
serve their interests best by retaining Persian nationality. It was explained
that their British nationality or protection would remain unaffected.
366. Many of those concerned declared that they would sooner leave the
country than become Persian subjects, but it is probable that in the end most of
them decided to remain. It proved impossible, however, to extract from the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs any list showing the number of petitions received
and the result of each, probably because the section dealing with the question was
in such confusion that no list existed.
367. During August and September it appeared that the Kurrami
communities, who are usually ignorant and thick-headed, had failed to
understand the warning conveyed to them in July, and were still involved in
numerous difficulties with the police. The oriental secretary in consequence
made a special journey to the Caspian provinces to explain in effect that the
Capitulations no longer existed and to compose as far as he could the difficulties
with the local authorities, a task in which he was largely successful.
(J) Debt.
368. On the 6th June the Persian Government received a windfall of some
£3,500,000 from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. On the 7th June the Imperial
Bank of Persia in London paid to the Treasury the sum of £490,000 in repayment
of the pre-war debt. The Treasury receipt specified that the payment was for
“ that part of the Persian debt to His Majesty’s Government and the Government
of India which was advanced in the years 1912, 1913 and 1914.”
369. Later the Imperial Bank of Persia, acting on behalf of the Persian
Government, asked the Treasury for an assurance that the sum of £490,000 was
a full and final settlement of the advances made in the years 1912 to 1914, and
that henceforward there was no charge on the southern customs receipts in respect
of either the principal or the interest of those advances. The Treasurv replv,
dated the 1st July, gave the assurance required, but added that this assurance in
no way affected the present position in respect of the assignment of the southern
customs as security for other obligations of the Persian Government to His
Majesty’s ^Government. This caveat was rendered necessary, first, by the fact
that the floating advances which composed a large part of the war and
post-war debt were secured on the southern customs, and, secondly, by the fact
that part of the arrangement made in 1926 with Feroughi for the reduction of
the debt to £2 million was that the security for its repavment was to ho tho
southern customs or the revenue derived from oil in the south
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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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