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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [138r] (275/644)
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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[12998] c 2
111. The effect of this reply was to produce, a week later, an official note
of protest, reserving the rights of the Iranian Government in respect of any profits
or losses arising out of the concession, and requesting His Majesty’s Government
in the United Kingdom to prevent further operations, failing which they would
take the necessary action to preserve their rights.
112. To this note His Majesty’s Minister was instructed to reply that His
Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom could not accept the Iranian
protest nor agree that Iran had any grounds for complaint. His Majesty’s
Government in the United Kingdom were not prepared to modify their refusal to
recognise Iranian claims to the island, and they felt equally unable to agree that
any question arose of the infringement of the status quo.
113. The views of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom were
also explained at length to the Iranian Minister in London, when the question
was raised by him under instructions from Tehran.
114. At the end of April a further note of protest was received by His
Majesty’s Minister. It was of considerable length and its argumentation was
hard to follow. No reply was returned to it, except for a simple acknowledgement
stating that a copy was being forwarded to the Foreign Office.
115. Both Tamb and Abu Musa were mentioned in a number of
conversations which His Majesty’s Minister had with various Iranian Ministers
on the subject of Gulf questions'in general. These conversations have been dealt
with in the section on General Treaty Negotiations.
(n) Charbar.
116. As a result of frequent and vigorous representations, the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs agreed in writing on the 21st January to the following solution
of the problem of the nationality of certain Khojas, Katris and Baluchis resident
at Charbar. Those of them who could show that their fathers had possessed
British nationality, and who wished themselves to retain it, would be allowed to
submit fresh petitions for the renunciation of their Iranian nationality under
article 13 of the Nationality Law. Such petitions must be handed in to the
Governor before the 21st March, and the petitioners would have to agree to leave
Iran within a time-limit to be determined later. At the same time, the Acting
Minister for Foreign Affairs informed His Majesty’s Minister that instructions
had been sent to the local authorities to allow Major Lincoln to see the individuals
concerned and to assist them in drawing up their petitions. It was also an
understood thing that the Iranian Government would accept all bona fide
petitions, and Major Lincoln was accordingly instructed to use every care in
seeing that all the petitioners had indisputable claims to British nationality.
117. There then followed a period of some weeks, aggravating for all
concerned but especially trying for Major Lincoln, during which nothing could
succeed in making the local authorities act on their instructions. Giving a
masterly display of all the arts of prevarication, they succeeded triumphantly in
making it impossible for Major Lincoln to achieve anything, and for a long time
it seemed that not even the most categorical instructions from Tehran would
suffice to move them. The Governor, perhaps, took rather a coward’s course in
departing at the critical juncture for the interior, where he was out of range of
all telegraphic communications, but his deputy proved to be a more spirited
adversary and effectively checkmated the Chief of Police when the latter showed
some signs of weakening after about a month. Even when explicit orders were
sent to him not to interfere with the Chief of Police, he succeeded in ignoring
them on the ground that they were addressed to him in his capacity as commander
of the local garrison and not in that of Acting Governor ! To cut the story short,
his resistance remained unbroken to the end, and it was only when the Governor
returned in the second week in March that Major Lincoln was at last allowed to
see the individuals concerned (of whom there were twenty-seven) and help them
with their petitions. He was eventually able to leave on the 19th March after a
stay of three and a half months at Charbar.
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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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