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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎147r] (293/644)

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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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(12) British Cultural Propaganda.
246. Modest beginnings were made during the year with a scheme of
British cultural propaganda. Owing to the extreme suspicion wit 1C ^
British activities were regarded in Iran, it was necessary to proceed with great
^ caution; but the Minister of Education proved to be sympathetic ^d said that
^ he would greatly welcome a gift of books to be made to libraries m Tehran by
the British Council for Relations with Other Countries. He also showed great
interest in an offer from the Council of a selection of gramophone records ot
lectures in English, asking, in fact, for an embarrassingly large number.
247. It was also suggested that a prize for English should be presente
by the Council to the Church Missionary Society College at Isfahan. It was
thought that an offer of prizes to Iranian schools would not be welcomed.
(13) Closure of Iranian Honorary Consulates.
248. In consequence of a decision taken by the Iranian Government at the
end of 1934 to abolish the appointment of all honorary consuls abroad, the 11 an ^
consulates at Manchester, Hull, Cardiff, Glasgow, Dublin and a ngoon w
closed at the beginning of the year. It was agreed, howevei, that the consulate
at Manchester would later be reopened under a consul de carnere.
(B)— Iraq.
(i) General.
249. The history of Irano-Iraqi relations in the year 1935 ^ the history of
the developments arising out of the appeal addressed by Iraq to the Leagu
Nations in December 1934.
250. When the dispute came before the Council on the 14th January, i
appeared that the question to be dealt with was that of the validity of the Treaty
of Erzerum and of the 1913-14 protocol, and although S ^ ld A ^ b
M. Kazemi made references to the navigational problems in the Sh att-el-Arab
they devoted the greater part of their speeches to legal arguments. But while
it seemed that the obvious way out of the impasse be /° ^ to
to the Permanent Court of International Justice, Iran firmly refused to a & iee
this course, in spite of the fact that Iraq, which was the party in possession, agieed
at once and unconditionally to abide by the Court s decision.
251. Efforts were then made to establish a temporary modus vivendi on the
disputed frontier, but it proved extremely difficult to And a formula, and matters
were not rendered easier for Iraq by the behaviour of the ™VV°rteur
Baron Aloisi, whose partiality in favour of Iran appeared to be dictated by
ulterior motires of Italian policy. It was finally decided that bo h parties should
make a declaration that they would refrain from action hkeiy to cause a
deterioration in the local situation, and that discussions between them should
subsequently be pursued in Rome under the auspices of the ra VV orteur.
252. Meanwhile, the Iranian delegates were lobbying actively for the
support of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, and it needed
numerous interviews to convince them that, while His Majesty s Government were
11 wavs ready to use their good offices to further a settlement of the practica
difficulties that arose, no progress could be made m this field until the barrier
represented by the juridical issue had been overcome. Meanwhile, they could only
act as a good member of the League. .
253. The subsequent negotiations in Rome constitute a page in the histoiy
of Iraq rather than in that of Iran, for their chief feature consisted of the
difficulties encountered by Nuri Said in consequence of the manifest bias of
Baron Aloisi in favour of the Iranian case. It therefore only seems necessary
to mention here that at the beginning of February Nun Said as a result of advice
given him in London in the course of a hurried visit which he paid during the
Rome negotiations, made a direct approach to the Iranians by offering the
immediate conclusion of agreements for a Conservancy Board, for the disposal
of the transferred territories’ oil-field royalties and for a bon voismage
arrangement on the understanding that Iran would recognise the existing
frontier M Ala agreed to refer these proposals to Tehran, and it is just possible
that they might have borne some fruit had not Baron Aloisi shortly afterwards
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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)
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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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