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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [132v] (264/644)
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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convenience and represented a further stage in the policy of concentration of
British interests on the Arab coast of the Gulf, the evacuation of Hen jam and
Basidu also served to remove a number of points of friction with the Iranian
Government.
24. This policy of withdrawal of British interests from the Iranian coast
was carried still further in the autumn, when Cables and Wireless (Limited)
effected a considerable programme of reorganisation. Their stations at Hen jam
and Charbar were handed over to the Iranians, and it was decided that their
station at Task should only be maintained until such time as the Iranian
authorities had linked it up with their own internal system.
25. For the rest, the year was pleasantly free from incidents. No new cases
occurred of Arab dhows being searched by Iranian warships, no serious
correspondence took place with the Iranian Government in regard to any of the
Arab sheikhdoms, and even Tamb and Abu Musa made only fleeting appearances
in the limelight.
26. Such other questions as arose were all of a nature that could be
discussed calmly and amicably at Tehran, the most important of these being the
desire of the Iranian Government to take over the system of lighting and buoying
on Iranian territory and in Iranian territorial waters, their regulations regarding
the visits of foreign warships and their regulations concerning the flying of flags
on ships in Iranian waters. Only in their attitude over ships’ visits did the
Iranian Government seem to be behaving in an unfriendly manner, but even on
this question there was still room for hope at the end of the year that they would
finally accept the very conciliatory proposals suggested by His Majesty’s Govern
ment in the United Kingdom.
27. The position of a number of British Indian subjects resident at
Charbar, who also possessed Iranian nationality, formed the subject of
voluminous correspondence and strong representations during the early part of
the year; but the Ministry for Foreign Affairs proved to be unusually conciliatory
and the question was well on its way to final settlement by the end of the year.
28. In general it is safe to say that during the year the Gulf lost its position
as the main storm-centre in Anglo-Iranian relations.
29. His Majesty’s Minister carried out a tour in the Gulf in February and
March in H.M.S. Shoreham, visiting Abadan, Koweit, Tamb, Basidu, Muscat,
Henjam, Elphinstone Inlet, Khor Kuwai, Bahrein and Bushire.
(b) Evacuation of Henjam and Basidu.
30 The desirability in principle of evacuating Henjam and Basidu as
soon as was practicable had been admitted in the autumn of 1934, but a final
decision was postponed pending the receipt of further information regarding the
practicability of securing additional accommodation on the Arab coast by
supplementing Bahrein with Khor Kuwai. This difficulty was disposed of by
the receipt of a satisfactory report early in the year from the Commander-in-chief,
Last Indies Squadron, and early in March the Admiralty gave their agreement
to evacuation at the earliest possible date.
a i 31 ' ^ rSt essent ^ a ^ was to reach a preliminary agreement with the
Sultan of Muscat regarding Khor Kuwai, but this presented few difficulties and
after the Sultan had been taken in H.M.S. Shoreham to inspect the place, he
wi mgly ga\e his consent to its use by the navy subject to one or two unimportant
reservations. r
J h6 ne g otaat i° n ^is agreement was not, however, concluded until
the 28th March, and meanwhile a number of other details had to be decided It
was agreed that no hint should be given the Iranian Government in advance
that Henjam and Basidu were being evacuated, as it was felt most desirable
that they should have no opportunity to demand our withdrawal, and thus create
the impression that we were being forced to leave instead of leaving of our own
LGTu | herefore ^ was decided that no announcement of our intentions
should be made on the Arab coast, and no steps should be taken to begin the actual
evacuation until after our communication had actually been made to the Iranian
Government. It was further decided that all buildings at Henjam and Basidu
should be handed over to the Iranian Government, and that planks, doors and
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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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- 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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