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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [109v] (218/644)
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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Government had agreed to send no more “ Indian ” consuls to Persia. He was
disabused by His Majesty’s Charge d’Afltaires. This tale has presumably been
put up to save Kazemi’s face, and it is possible that it had even been told to the
Shah.
187. The matter was left at this stage, and since no other consuls from the
Indian Political Service
The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47.
were introduced during the year, it is not known whether
the Persian Government have decided to drop their request.
(b) Criminal Tribes.
188. No complaints were received during the year from the Persian Govern
ment about the working of the Criminal Tribes Act (see paragraph 42 of the
annual report for 1933).
(c) Bombay Riots.
189. Compensation was slowly paid out to the sufferers in the Bombay riots
(see paragraph 43 of the 1933 report), and no further communications were
received from the Persian Government.
(5) A nglo-Persian Oil Company.
190. After the difficulties of 1933 the company enjoyed a quiet year. Work
on the pipe-line between the Naft Khanah field, which is to be known henceforth
as Naft-i-Shah, and Kermanshah was pushed on rapidly and the final welding
was completed in December. Work was still proceeding on the three pumping
stations and on the refinery, which, it is anticipated, will be opened in June 1935.
(6) Imperial Airways.
191. Complaints continued to be received from the Persian Government at
intervals during the year that Imperial Airways aircraft had flown over Jask.
this question was complicated by the claim of the Persian Government to what
amounts to a 12-mile limit of territorial waters. The complaints were investigated
and appeared to be groundless.
(7) The Imperial Bank of Persia.
192. In 1933 the bank were faced by a demand for municipal taxation on
the chief manager s residence. Correspondence on this subject continued in
1934, the bank claiming that the sentence in their concession'(“ La banque, ses
etablissements et ses succursales” would be exempt from all taxation) covered
the residences of the staff, while the municipality held that it did not.
193. The question was referred to the Foreign Office, and the Legation was
informed that it was one on which divergent views might legitimately be held.
The Foieign Office pointed out that, even if the hank were exempt, the munici
pality might well claim that the occupants of houses owned by the bank were
liable. In these circumstances it was considered advisable not to resist if the
municipality pressed their demand, which they had not done by the end of the
year. J
194. The Ministry of Finance also raised the question of income tax which
is at present not paid by the bank in Persia. This matter was under discussion
with tiie Hoard in London at the end of the year.
(8) Imferial and International Communications Com-pany.
19.1 The question of the duty levied by the Persian Government on th<
company s importations (see paragraph 344 of the annual report for 1933
continued to be the subject of discussion during the year.
196 The Persian Government maintained that such items as medicine'
and clothing could not be claimed as “necessaire au bon fonctionnement de k
igne, and after months of futile discussion His Majesty’s Minister felt thai
it was hopeless to press the claim The Foreign Office were therefore asked fo,
instructions, which had not reached the legation by the end of the year.
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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