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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎237v] (474/644)

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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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the Iranian Charge d’Affaires in London protested against an article by
Rosita Forbes, in which there was derogatory comment on the Shah, and the
Ministry for Foreign Affairs later informed His Majesty’s Minister that His
Imperial Majesty was very indignant.
Fear Murder.
105. Correspondence with the Iranian Government with regard to this
case continued during the year. In April the Ministry for Foreign Affairs
stated that, of the persons arrested and tried, the principal had died in prison,
whilst the other, a comparatively minor accomplice, had been condemned to three
years' imprisonment. There was reason to suspect that the name given by the
Iranian Government for the main culprit was incorrect, and that in reality he
was an officer of the road police, but no proof of this could be adduced. Efforts
were made to obtain further details with regard to the trial and the individuals
found guilty, but they had not met with any success by the end of the year.
British Official News.
106. A the end of 1937 the Iranian Government renewed their objections
to the distribution outside by His Majesty’s Legation—limited though it was—
of the British official news. In January copies of the news, mailed by His
Majesty’s Legation to His Majesty’s Consulates in Iran, were confiscated by the
Iranian postal authorities. His Majesty’s Minister interviewed the Director-
General at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs on this subject. The latter undertook
that there would be no further interference with copies sent to His Majesty’s
Consulates, but, arguing that the Agence Pars had the sole right to distribute
news, declined to approve of the already very limited list of subscribers (in number
only six), and was only willing that copies should continue to be supplied to the
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Imperial Bank of Iran, apart from the
consulates. The Director-General himself requested, however, that copies should
continue to be sent, as before, to the Agence Pars. This has proved very useful;
the local papers have during the year regularly and freely repeated in their
columns items, usually verbatim translations, from the official news.
Cultural Propaganda.
107. Cultural propaganda continued on the same modest and tentative lines
as in 1937. There was no relaxation of official watchfulness and suspicion of
anything savouring of active propaganda. The dismissal in August of M. Hikmat
from his post of Minister of Education was a misfortune. Whereas M. Hikmat
had always shown himself helpful and anxious to promote English studies, and
willing, within the narrow limits possible in Iran, to take decisions on his own
responsibility, the present acting Minister of Education has so far not proved
so helpful. Dr. Sadiq has remained at his post of head of the National Teachers’
College, and by his continued co-operation has been of great assistance to His
Majesty’s Legation.
108. At the beginning of the year some doubt was felt by His Majesty’s
Legation regarding the advisability of recommending further candidates for the
student bursaries offered by the British Council. This doubt was due to the
conditions under which such candidates are nominated by the Iranian authorities
without the participation of the legation, and to the fear that graft and influence
rather than genuine considerations of merit determined their selection. Such
doubts have not yet been dissipated. Nevertheless, after the receipt of a favour
able report on the Iranian student who began an eighteen months’ course in
England in January 1938 it was decided to ask the Iranian Government to put
forward candidates for one student bursary and one post-graduate scholarship
for the academic years 1938-40. The student bursary was again in English. For
the post-graduate scholarship Dr. Sadiq proposed a student of dramatic art, on
the ground that Iran, which possessed rich untapped folk-lore and music and
which would shortly possess an opera house also, lacked trained dramatic
teachers. This proposal hardly conformed with the British Council’s wish that
the post-graduate scholarship should be granted in some technical subject. It was
decided, however, to support Dr. Sadiq’s recommendation of the candidate, who
was duly accepted by the British Council. At the end of the year His Majesty’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.

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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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