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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [174v] (348/644)
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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authorities when they desired to expel British subjects from the country. It
was pointed out that when the police served notices of expulsion they gave no
reasons for their action so that the persons concerned, though they had the right
of appeal to the Ministry of the Interior, did not know what there was against
them, and were thus quite unable to draft appeals which stood any chance of
success. Moreover, no reply was ever returned by the Ministry of the Interior to
such appeals, the only intimation of their failure being given orally to the persons
concerned by the local police, that is to say, the very authorities against whose
order the appeal had been lodged. Finally, the persons who were to be expelled
were then given no period of grace to wind up their affairs, but were put across
the frontier immediately. It was, therefore, suggested that, when the police
served a British national with a notice of expulsion, they should also give
him in writing a detailed statement of the reasons for their order; that if the
man then appealed to the Ministry of the Interior and his appeal was rejected,
notice of rejection in writing should be communicated to him by the Ministry
and not by the local police; and that he should then be allowed a reasonable
period of grace, say one month, in which to leave the country.
76. These suggestions were sympathetically received and the matter was
subsequently discussed on a number of occasions with officials of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs. The latter said that they regretted that they would be unable
to reply in writing to His Majesty’s Legation’s note, as they regarded the points
raised therein as coming entirely within the scope of the internal administration
regulations of the country, but they took the matter up with the other departments
concerned, and towards the end of the year informed His Majesty’s Legation
orally of the new system which the authorities were now proposing to adopt. This
system seemed adequately to meet the points raised by His Majesty’s Legation,
except that it appeared that foreign nationals would still not be fully informed
of the reasons for which their expulsion was ordered, though a general indication
would henceforth be given them. As the Ministry specifically invited His
Majesty’s Legation to comment on the new system, this one point was referred
back to them with the request that fresh consideration might be given to the
possibility of providing greater details. The Ministry appeared sympathetic and
their further views were awaited at the end of the year.
(f) Pilgrims.
77. A conciliatory letter was received from the Minister for Foreign Affairs
at the end of January in reply to the representations of His Majesty’s Minister
in regard to the harsh treatment of Indian pilgrims to Meshed by the Iranian
customs and police. M. Kazemi suggested that many of the difficulties experienced
by pilgrims seemed mainly due to their ignorance of the regulations and added
that to facilitate their passage through the customs, it had been decided to
post up in every custom-house a full list of the goods which travellers might not
import or export, as well as the text of the regulations in force concerning the
carriage of goods in transit across the country. M. Kazemi suggested that these
regulations should also be communicated to pilgrims before their departure by
the authorities in India. His letter finally stated that instructions had been sent
to all customs officials and to local authorities in the interior of the country to
behave with all courtesy towards pilgrims and other travellers.
78. This letter was accompanied by an official note in regard to the
misfortunes of a party of pilgrims at Damghan, which had been strongly repre
sented to the Ministry by His Majesty’s Minister the previous autumn (see
paragraph 166 of the annual report for 1935). The customs now agreed to return
the fifty silk saris which had been confiscated from the ladies of the party and
to reduce the fine of approximately £35 levied on them to the nominal one of
130 rials (£1 125. 6d). 79
79. Undoubtedly the general instructions mentioned above, and possibly the
example of this one particular case, did a lot of good, for no complaints reached
His Majesty’s Legation during the remainder of the year with regard to the
behaviour of the customs authorities, and only once with regard to the police. It
must be remembered, however, that Iran derives considerable revenue from the
pilgrim traffic to Meshed, and that it is strongly in her own interest not to let
any situation develop which might result in a diminution of the flow.
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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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