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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [168r] (335/644)
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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sole purpose of fuelling; whereas the Iranian Government maintained that
notification of all visits should be made eight days in advance in Tehran. His
Majesty’s Legation were fortunately put in possession of a valuable argument in
January when the Iranian Government requested that docking and repair
facilities should be given at Bombay to the Iranian sloops Babr and Palang, since
though it was decided not to link the two questions too closely, His Majesty’s
Legation were authorised to point out to the Iranian Government that, while
docking facilities would readily be granted, His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom had been disagreeably impressed by the contrast between the
readiness of the Iranian Government to assume that the Government of India
would at any time grant valuable privileges at Bombay and their unwillingness
to make a trifling concession to His Majesty’s ships. His Majesty’s Government
in the United Kingdom further naturally expected that, now that docking
facilities were being granted to the Iranian navy, the Iranian Government would
deal with the question of the visits of His Majesty’s ships in as accommodating a
spirit as possible.
13. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs were clearly much relieved when they
learned that His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom had decided not
to make the grant of facilities at Bombay conditional on obtaining their desiderata
over visits by His Majesty’s ships to Abadan; and they then tackled the Ministry
of War with such good effect that the latter were persuaded to agree that, if one of
His Majesty’s ships desired to visit Abadan urgently for the sole purpose of
taking in fuel, it would be sufficient notification if His Majesty’s vice-consul at
Khorramshahr informed the Governor of Abadan twenty-four hours in advance.
It was further agreed that, in the event of such a visit, no calls would be
exchanged, no officer or member of the ship’s company would be landed, and the
ship would cast off as soon as she had taken in fuel. The Iranian Government
unfortunately refused to agree to the other main request put forward by His
Majesty’s Legation, namely, that when notification of an ordinary visit was made
in Tehran, the local authorities should simultaneously be informed direct by the
nearest British consular officer; and that it should be understood that the latter, in
the absence of any communication from the Iranian Government, would then raise no
objection to the visit. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs stated that they feared
that this suggestion might lead to practical difficulties in ports where there was
no British consular officer, and they also felt that the procedure proposed would
inevitably lead in time to the supposition that local notification could replace the
notification through the diplomatic channel. The Iranian Government was, how
ever, prepared to give a categorical assurance that the necessary instructions
would always be sent with the utmost promptitude to the local officials concerned.
The Iranian Government, in agreeing to make the desired concession at Abadan,
stipulated that in all other respects His Majesty’s ships should abide by the
regulations, and proposed that the new arrangements should come into force at
No Ruz (21st March).
14. His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom were able to accept
these proposals, though their acceptance was so worded as not to commit them
to agreeing to one or two clauses in the regulations which they considered to
be contrary to international law and practice; and on the whole it may be said
that the new system worked well during the remainder of the year. One or
two muddles arose during the first few weeks, either because the local authorities
received obscurely worded instructions from Tehran or because they did not
properly understand the regulations; and a number of points were discovered
on which the regulations were either silent or obscure and which had to be
cleared up by correspondence with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Nearly all
these questions were settled smoothly enough, however, and the following incident
was the only one which even threatened to have serious consequences.
15. H.M.S. Bideford visited Abadan on the 14th November, and two days
later the Ministry for Foreign Affairs complained orally that Captain Wadham
had objected to paying a call on Colonel Bayendor in accordance with the regula
tions, giving as his reason the fact that the waters of the Shatt-el-Arab, off
Abadan, were not under Iranian sovereignty. The Ministry pointed out that any
argument which touched the sovereignty of the waters off Abadan raised an
issue of first-class importance to the Iranian Government, and requested that a
full enquiry might be made into the matter. It soon became apparent, however,
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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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- 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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