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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [182r] (363/644)
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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156. Of the above, point (a) was subsequently regarded by His Majesty’s
Government in the United Kingdom and the Iraqi Government alike for political
and technical reasons as so serious a stumbling block as virtually to knock the
bottom out of the British draft convention, and the alternative of co-operation
suggested as a compromise was never pursued by either side in more than a
desultory manner throughout the year.
157. On point (b) the Persian Government shortly changed their ground,
and as regards width insisted on being conceded half the river or at least the
thalweg.
158. They maintained in support of their claim that Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had
personally agreed to an anchorage “as at Mohammerah ’’ in his interview with
the Shah at Tehran.
159. The above interview was quickly followed up. Four days later, on
the 16th January, M. Kazemi sent for His Majesty’s Minister again and informed
him that the Iranian Government were now willing to accept the principle of a
Tripartite Conservancy Convention, but that they must receive a definite
approach from the Iraqi Government in the point. In return the Iranian Govern
ment desired the assistance of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom
on expediting the subsequent negotiations for a final settlement of all outstanding
questions with Iraq; and he wished an understanding to this effect to be kept
secret between the Iranian Government and His Majesty’s Government. Sir
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen stated explicitly that His Majesty’s Government
could not take sides against Iraq, but that they were quite ready to assist in
expediting the negotiations. M. Kazemi said that he despaired of bringing the
Iraqis to any concrete result unless His Majesty’s Government brought some
pressure upon them.
160. M. Kazemi then produced the French text of a document headed
“ Base d’Accord,” embodying wdiat he had been saying; and he suggested that he
and His Majesty’s Minister should initial it together at once and that it would
form a Gentleman’s agreement between them. The document made the arrange
ments for reaching agreement as to British participation in the Conservancy
Convention conditional upon agreement being reached on no less than ten other
questions of major or minor importance, including besides the frontier and
anchorage issue the signature of the treaties of non-aggression and for the
pacific settlement of disputes. A further condition was that all the agreements
that the document covered must be concluded by March 1936 so that they might
be signed in April.
161. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen told M. Kazemi that he saw no great
object in initialling this document, but that he would ask the Foreign Office for
urgent instructions on it to reach him if possible before his parting audience with
the Shah two days later. M. Kazemi concluded the interview by saying that he
now expected to receive from the Iraqi Government a communication to the effect
that they found it in their interest to have a Tripartite Conservancy Convention
formed from Iraq, Iran and Great Britain and enquiring whether the Iranian
Government agreed to this in principle. The latter would express concurrence
and negotiations would follow as indicated in the document he had communicated.
M. Kazemi added the warning that there were many points in the British draft
for a Conservancy Convention to which the Iranian Government would raise
objection.
162. On the same day M. Kazemi made a communication on similar lines to
the Iraqi Minister. The latter and Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen agreed that
the best procedure would be for M. Khalid Suleiman to receive from his Govern
ment instructions to approach the Iranian Government in the sense suggested
by M. Kazemi. The Iraqi Minister was anxious that His Majesty’s Ambassador
at Bagdad should have commended this line to the Iraqi Government before his
own commendation reached them from Tehran.
163. While reporting home and to Bagdad in the above sense, Sir Hughe
Knatchbull-Hugessen added his comments on M. Kazemi’s “ Base d’Accord.” He
saw little object in initialling the document proposed by M. Kazemi beyond the
desirability of avoiding discouragement to him now that he had got so far. On
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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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