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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎218r] (435/644)

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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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independence to join this Islamic group, and this theory was fostered by a
tendency of the Egyptian Legation to hang about the representatives of the four
Powers. Three individuals acted at different times as Charge d Affaires during
Rahman Azzam’s absence. Egyptian interests in Iran seemed virtually
non-existent.
193. In July the Iranian Government’s indignation was aroused by the
presentation in Cairo and certain other countries of a fdm made in Cairo in
Arabic entitled “Leila, Daughter of the Desert.” In the Iranian view the
story of this film reflected in a derogatory as well as unhistorical manner on
King Khosroes of Persia. In vain did the Egyptian Legation invite the Iranian
authorities to sanction any Iranian film however it might represent Cleopatra
or other Egyptian figures of the past; the Iranian Minister was withdrawn
from Cairo, and replaced after some months by one who have previously served
there as Minister.
Finland.
194. In October the Finnish Minister, resident in Moscow, paid a visit of
about a month to Tehran, accompanied by his wife. Baron \ rjo-Koskinen was
received in audience by the Shah.
France.
195. Irano-French relations were troubled by articles in the press, as in
1936, and in spite of efforts by the French Government, remained unsettled and
unsatisfactory. Early in the year the transfer to English uni\ersities of the
Iranian students holding State scholarships in I ranee (see paragiaph 129 above)
seems actually to have been decided upon by the Iranian Government and only
not carried into effect because of the practical difficulties. The French Legation,
too, had difficulty in securing an agrement for their new Minister, M. Bodard,
whose previous post had been Addis Ababa; and officers of the Fiench Military
Mission were made to encounter unexpected and novel difficulties and hindrances.
196 In August the French Government sent out M. Honor at, a Senator
and former Minister of Public Instruction, on a mission for the promotion of
cultural relations. He presented the Shah with the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honour, and brought gifts to various Tehran institutions. In turn,
M. Honorat was feted and made Honorary Doctor of the University ot lehran,
and appropriate Iranian decorations were bestowed on him and members of the
French Legation. The good effect of this visit was, however, spoiled by a foolish
article in a Paris newspaper commenting on the Queen of Iran s visit to Europe,
which drew venomous rejoinders in the officially controlled Tehran newspapers.
According to the Iranian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, this incident made it
impossible to fill the post of Iranian Minister in Pans, vacant since early in the
year through the recall of M. Ferouhar.
197. In March the sloop D’Iberville visited Khorramshahr, Abadan and
Bushire and its officers were entertained by the commander of the Iranian
southern naval forces. In July Air France inaugurated an additiona weekly
air-mail service to India and Siam via Bushire and Jask, and a direct weekly
air mail to Indo-China.
Germany.
198. German activity, commercial and other, continued unabated throughou
937. The clearing agreement, though continuing tobe of great advantage o
Germany’s export trade, encountered interruptions and difficulties which seemed
iot to have been overcome by the year’s end. M. Hajis, president of the Iranian
Exchange Control Commission, went to Berlin m June and remained there fo
[early three months. It is reported that he endeavoured to obtain two years
‘ rebate ” in respect of the deficit under the Irano-German Clearing Agi cement,
iut failed in his mission, as he was unable to furnish statistics required showing
xports from Iran. In May the German Iranian Chamber of Commerce issued
, statement in Berlin to the effect that interruptions m the clearing were mainly
lue to German exports to Iran having risen to a much larger extent than Ham
xports to Germany, and that the chamber’s estimate that Germany s export
urplus during the first quarter would amount to 10 million reichsmarks had

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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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