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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎111v] (222/644)

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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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(d) Jehan Khan.
226. Early in January 1934 it was discovered that the police had, some
months earlier, entered and searched the house, outside His Majesty’s Legation,
occupied by Jehan Khan, one of the Indian pensioner orderlies employed in the
Legation. They removed certain articles as security for a debt which it was
alleged Jehan Khan’s son-in-law owed to a third party.
227. An immediate protest was made by His Majesty’s Minister, which
elicited from the Minister for Foreign Affairs a reply to the effect that diplomatic
immunity could not be recognised for the servants of Legations. The question
was then referred to the Foreign Office.
228. His Majesty’s Minister, was later duly instructed to inform the Persian
Government that, in the view of His Majesty’s Government, official servants of
the Minister were entitled, by the law of nations, to full diplomatic immunity.
At the same time, he submitted lengthy quotations from recognised authorities
on international law in support of this view.
229. As was to be expected, the Minister for Foreign Affairs took six
months to answer this note. His reply, which was couched in unusually courteous
and restrained terms, stated that this was one of the problems of internatibnal
law which was not the subject of unanimous agreement. The view held by the
Persian Government was shared by some other Governments, and they regretted
that they could not agree with His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom.
230. This note was referred to the Foreign Office with a request for
instructions, which had not arrived at the end of the year.
231. Meanwhile, Jehan Khan was still endeavouring to secure the restitu
tion of his confiscated property.
(e) Mesopotamia Persia Corporation.
232. This case (see paragraph 385 of the annual report for 1933) was
brought to a successful conclusion during the year. The Mesopotamia Persia
Corporation obtained a verdict in their favour from the Court of Appeal at
Shiraz and from the Court of Cassation at Tehran.
233. They were awarded costs, but had not succeeded in obtaining them
from Kazeruni by the end of the year. The task is likely to prove one of
considerable difficulty.
(f) Mr. Parsons.
234. It was not until the end of April that Mr. Parsons bail was withdrawn
(see paragraph 391 of the annual report for 1933), and it was then decided that
a claim for compensation should be preferred.
235. His Majesty’s Minister wrote privately to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs and recited in detail the various abuses that had occurred. He asked for
£100 as a slight compensation for Mr. Parsons’ sufferings.
236. In spite of constant reminders, no reply was received to this letter
until the end of September, when an official of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
stated that the fact that the bail had been withdrawn did not mean that
Mr. Parsons was innocent. The charge was still hanging over his head and he
might be brought to trial at any time. As regards compensation, the official
admitted in so many words that none could be paid, since this would establish a
precedent foi so many Persians who had been the victims of wrongful
imprisonment.
237. His Majesty s Minister refused to take this verbal statement as an
answer ^pd left with the Minister for Foreign Affairs an a)ide-memoire to this
cliect, which at la.st piovoked a written answer, which confirmed what the Legation
had learnt orally; namely, that the cancellation of the bail did not establish
Mr. Parsons’ innocence and that no claim for compensation could lie.
, T . , 238 - His Majesty’s Minister decided to argue the case personally with the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, but no suitable opportunity had presented itself
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.

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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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