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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎195r] (389/644)

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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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members of the mission have not yet been renewed, though long overdue for
renewal. They are at present on leave, and it is rumoured that they will not
return. Colonel Bever is, therefore, the only member of the mission now in
Tehran. One reason given is their dislike of Colonel Bever, which is so pronounced
that Major Guillaume (the second senior member of the mission) stated that, if
Colonel Bever’s contract was renewed, he and the remaining members would refuse
to stay on in Iran. Another report (not confirmed, but from a reliable source)
states that Sartip Ahmad Nakhchevan (until recently Commandant of the Iranian
air force) and other officers had taken advantage of Colonel Bever’s short absence
on leave to conduct some active propaganda against the mission and had attempted
to convince His Imperial Majesty the Shah that the Iranians were now perfectly
capable of £ £ running their own show ’ ’ and had no further need for foreign
advisers.
(11) Reconnaissance Flights.
305. During the month of November machines of the £C Tiger-Moth ” type,
with pilots belonging to the Iranian air force, made reconnaissance flights over
the projected civil air route from Tehran to Bushire and Tehran to Kermanshah.
Trial flights do not appear to have been made over the final stages from
Kermansnah to Bagdad. The, non-completion of an agreement between the
Iranian and Iraqi Governments appear to be the reason.
(12) Visits of Iranian Air Force Officers to Europe.
306. Sartip Ahmad Nakhchevan, Commandant of the Iranian air force,
accompanied by Lieutenant Abulfath Afkhami, left for Europe on the 7th May
and returned to Tehran on the 27th October. In an interview just after his
arrival in Tehran, he said that he had enjoyed himself immensely and had been
greatly impressed by all he had seen. He found the Hawker Engineering
Company obliging and frank, and they had, he was sure, abandoned their previous
and tiresome attitude of failing to understand the reason for the complaints about
their aircraft. They were sending out another mechanic, he said, who would,
he hoped, speedily effect what further repairs were necessary. He went on to say
that he had received permission (presumably from His Imperial Majesty the Shah)
to purchase thirty additional aircraft, and the type selected were Hawker
“ Hinds ” with ££ Pegasus ” engine; he said that he had been assured by the Air
Ministry that the present great activity in aeroplane factories in the United
Kingdom would not unduly delay the execution of the Iranian Government’s
orders.
(C) The Iranian Navy.
307. The sloops Babr and Palang returned to Khorramshahr after dry
docking in Bombay in April.
308. The dry dock referred to in paragraph 534 of the annual report for
1935 arrived in June and was moored at Bandar Shahpur. Its ultimate location
is still in doubt.
309. Another tug of 1,500 h.p. and a crane barge capable of lifting 60 tons
has been ordered from Italy.
310. The discipline of the ratings of the Iranian navy when ashore has been
the subject of several complaints from Khorramshahr. Clashes with the police
have occurred, and the naval officers are reported to side with their men, to flout
justice and allow these lapses to embitter their relations with the civil authorities.
(D) Gendarmerie.
311. There is nothing to report of this organisation except that it has taken
over from the army the administration of the frontier guards—a preventive force
raised to counter the activities of smugglers on the Iranian borders.

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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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