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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [218v] (436/644)
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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proved correct. Reference was made to a procedure suggested by the National
Bank of Iran involving the release by German exporters of documents against
payment in rials, and on the whole exporters were advised, where possible, to
retain documents until the conversion of the whole claim into reichsmarks had
been effected. All parties concerned in German-Iranian trade were urgently
invited to help in overcoming the existing difficulties. At the end of the year
the balance against Iran was estimated at about 50 million reichsmarks, with
the result that the Government restricted the issue of import permits for German
goods.
199. A large order for locomotives and rolling-stock for the railway did
not, after long negotiation, go to the German Ferrostahl group, probably because
the latter could not secure satisfactory arrangements for payment. Eventually,
locomotives were supplied by Austria, and Skoda seemed likely to, supply some
of the rolling-stock. But the foundations of Iran’s first iron-foundry were laid
at Aminabad, near Tehran, under German auspices, and Germany supplied much
of the machinery of an immense tobacco
factory
An East India Company trading post.
opened by the Shah in Tehran
in November.
200. Germany was particularly active as regards aviation. Early in March
two officers of the German air force, one a son of Field-Marshal Blomberg,
Minister of War, flew a double-engined Junkers machine, a bomber in civilian
dress, from Egypt to Tehran en route from Kabul. On its return journey the
machine flew from Kabul to Jask and on from Kerman to Damascus. His
Majesty’s Legation were instructed by the Foreign Office that they and consular
officers in Iran should befriend these two aviators. Literally and politically this
flight was part of a long-distance policy, civil and military.
201. On the civil side an agent of Luft-Hansa attached to the German
Legation prosecuted throughout the year the service across Iran for passengers
and mails to Kabul and China, in which Dr. Schacht had sought the concurrence
of the Iranian Government at the end of 1936. Eventually, consent was given
to nine trial flights, which were duly carried out. Some of the machines involved
flew from Kabul on to China, and encountered serious difficulties on this last
section. By the end of the year it seemed probable that, if they still so desired,
the German Government would be able to obtain permission for a permanent
service, subject to pretty stiff conditions; but in October proposals were made to
the German air authorities elsewhere which might affect their desire to establish
a service to China via Iran.
202. The German Government obtained the sanction of the Iraqi Govern
ment for this service in April, but His Majesty’s Government in the United
Kingdom had reason to think that they were winning permission from the
Governments concerned individually, by representing untruthfully that the
permissions of all the other Governments were already forthcoming, and His
Majesty’s Legation, as well as His Majesty’s other missions concerned, were
instructed to take steps, if they thought this feasible, to undeceive the Iranian
Government. The Foreign Office were informed that, in view of the very close
association of the Foreign Ministers of Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan and their
staffs at Tehran in July, there seemed little doubt that the Iranian Minister for
Foreign Affairs was accurately informed as to the true position between the
German Government and the Governments of Iraq and Afghanistan; it was
therefore not proposed to make any communication to the Iranian Ministry for
Foreign Affairs for the present.
203. At the end of October a Junkers bombing machine arrived at Tehran
with a German crew and gave a series of demonstrations of flying and bombing
with dummy bombs. Iranian air force officers were taken up, but not allowed to
fly the machine, J.U. 86k, an obsolescent type. The demonstrations were not an
unqualified success, but there was an unconfirmed rumour in December that, as
a result of the visit, twenty Iranian officers and non-commissioned officers were
leaving to do a maintenance course in Germany, and also that an order had been
placed for twenty machines of the type J.U. 86.
204. In December Herr Baldur von Schirach, head of the Hitler Jugend,
paid a brief visit to Tehran during the celebration of the third anniversary of
the Iranian Boy Scout movement. Herr von Schirach was given a very friendly
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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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- 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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