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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [193v] (386/644)
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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force section of this report. It would not be out of place, perhaps, to say that
the success of the one and the partial failure of the other are not due so much
to the personality of the leaders or the capabilities of the members as to the nature
of their duties. Two prominent features of the Iranian character (grudgingly
admitted by even their most ardent supporters) are conceit and inability to
co-operate.
283. The first results in the Iranian who is learning a trade telling his
instructor, after the most brief period of instruction, that he knows sufficient to
dispense with further tutelage. Obviously this unwillingness to learn will be
more strongly evinced when the subject of instruction is a concrete one like flying
than when it is more abstract like military history.
284. Similarly, the second characteristic will render the relations of
instructor and pupil more difficult in proportion to the degree of contact between
the parties and a professor lecturing on military subjects at a college will not
be hampered by it so much as a flying instructor whose very duties must force
him, frequently, to give orders and assume administrative responsibility. In
other words, the closer and the more numerous the points of contact, the greater
the possibility of friction.
(14) Colleagues.
(i) Japanese.
285. Commandant S. Obara, who arrived in January to relieve Commandant
Ueta, was recalled in July as the result of an unseemly fracas between him and
his Minister. The post remained vacant till October when Commandant H.
Fukuti arrived.
(ii) French.
286. Commandant Robert Leleu arrived in April, the post having remained
vacant since the death of Commandant David in September of 1935.
(iii) Italian.
287. Capitaine de Frigate Luciano Bigi arrived in October to take up the
newly created appointment of Italian naval attach^.
(iv) Russian.
288. Colonel Absalmoff expects to be transferred shortly. He will have been
four years in Tehran by April 1937, though no tenure of the appointment is, he
says, laid down.
(v) Turkish.
289. No change in the appointment of Turkish military attache has taken
place during 1936.
290. All these colleagues are friendly and helpful.
(15) British Officers — Travellers.
291. The following officers visited Iran, most of them in transit from India
to Europe, during 1936 :—
Major H. J. Underwood, l/15th Punjab Regiment.
Captain W. B. Radford, 1st King’s Dragoon Guards.
Captain C. A. Street, South Staffordshire Regiment.
Captain H. R. K. L. Lawes, South Staffordshire Regiment.
Lieutenant J. E. J. Davie, Grenadier Guards.
Lieutenant R. E. J. C. Coates, Grenadier Guards.
Lieutenant H. N. Blair, Iraq Levies.
Lieutenant J. O. M. Ashton, Iraq Levies.
Lieutenant Ajit Singh Guraya, 5/8th Punjab Regiment.
Lieutenant P. J. Lewis, The Buff’s.
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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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- Title
- 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
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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