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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [110r] (219/644)
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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[11539] B 12
197. The cable ship Lady Denison-Pender again visited the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
during the year. The Persian Government accorded the necessary iacilities and
initimated that no repairs were required to the Henjam-Bandar Abbas cable.
198. After discussion with the Imperial and International Communication
Company’s agent at Task, a note was addressed to the Minister lor horeign
Affairs complaining of the encroachments by the military authorities into the
company’s area. It was proposed that the company should surrender various
buildings for which they had no use and which were apparently needed by the
military authorities. In return for this the Persian Government would cause
a wall to be built round the area, thus delimiting it in a satisfactory manner.
199. No written reply has been received to this note by the end of the year,
but the Legation were informed orally that, while the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs admitted that there was something in the Legation’s arguments, nothing
could be decided until a commission had examined the buildings and site. r I his
commission would report as soon as possible and the matter would then be
discussed further with the Legation. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs also
refused to admit that the area of the concession to-day must be that fixed in the
agreement of 1887. This aspect of the question was under discussion with the
Foreign Office at the close of the year.
(9) Claims.
200. No progress was made with any claims at Tehran during the year, and
the files of the British claims were still under examination in the foreign Office.
201. The claims of the Persian Railway Syndicate and the Persian Trans
port Company formed the subject of correspondence with the Ministry for foreign
Affairs. The latter was the object of intensive examination during the year, as
a result of which a lengthy note was addressed to the Minister for foreign
Affairs rebutting the Persian Government’s defence (made in 1932) of their
action in cancelling the company’s concession. This note pressed for an impartial
examination of the company’s claim to compensation.
202. The American Minister was unable to obtain any satisfaction in the
matter of the Ulen Company’s claim against the Persian Government, in which
the British firm of Stewart McDonnell are interested. His efforts merely resulted
in a new campaign against the company in the Tehran press. 10
(10) Consular Affairs.
(a) Mails.
203. During the year the courier system between Bagdad and Bush ire
worked smoothly, though considerable labour was thrown on His Majesty’s
Embassy at Bagdad and His Majesty’s consul at Basra, on whom fell the onus
of obtaining the necessary visas and handing the mail to the captains of the
British India Fast Mail. At the end of the year a scheme for a weekly service
(the present one is fortnightly) was under discussion. This was to be run in
connexion with the new Imperial Airways service. No decision has been reached
by the end of the year.
204. During most of the year mails to His Majesty’s consulates in East
Persia reached Tehran in the bag and were sent on to Meshed by special courier.
This method obviously resulted in much time being lost, and in September a
dummy run was staged, a courier bringing mail from Quetta to Zahedan. The
trial succeeded, but 'difficulties were raised by the Governor of Zahedan, who
felt unable to give a courier’s visa to a messenger delivering mail to the Foreign
and Political Department, on the ground that he was only allowed by the regula
tions to give visas to couriers carrying mail to Ministries for Foreign Affairs.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs were informed that the Foreign and Political
Department were, in fact, the “ Ministry for Foreign Affairs ” of the Government
of India, and were requested to authorise the Governor to grant visas. No reply
had been received to this note 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.
- Extent and format
- 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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- 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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