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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [266v] (532/644)
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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of three separate censors, one of whom is Russian and another Persian. So
much for the negative influences on public opinion, in the Allied interest. On
the positive side efforts were beyig made which were to convert into a large
Public Relations Bureau what had been the office of one overworked press attache.
47. At the end of 1941 Mr. Firoughi. who had been called in by Reza Sh a h
immediately after the Allied invasion of Persia, was still in power. Ill-healtl\^v
and a scholarly disinclination for the rough-and-tumble of political life would
probably have led him to resign, but for a disinterested patriotism rare among
Persians, which induced him to stay in power in order to carry the treaty
through. Being naturally in favour of democratic institutions, and^ having
been one of the principal opponents of the despotism set up by Reza khan, he
considered himself bound to work with the Majlis and above all not to force
them to pass the treaty or even to cut down the maximum period allowed by
the Majlis for discussion. He was, however, completely disillusioned by the
attitude of the deputies, who were in fact below even the Persian average. For
years no free elections had taken place : the form was gone through, bpt the
candidates were nominees of Reza Shah’s and were never opposed. Few of
them would have been elected but for the Shah’s orders, and many were dishonest
time-servers of a low type. All of them had served merely to countersign
anything sent to them by the- Shah for 44 discussion, and it was revolting to
see the passion for liberty which seized these former sycophants now that it
could be indulged in without danger. Bills of great urgency, such as the
Hoarding Bill and. the Bill for the Return of the late Shah’s Estates to the
Original Owners, made very slow progress, mainly because of the personal
interest of many of the deputies, and the attitude towards the treaty was
timorous and pettifogging. It was too much to hope that men chosen by Reza
Shah for their subversion would now show independence in face of the general
attitude of the Persian public, which was pro-German rather than pro-Ally.
The great Russian offensive which began in December, and especially the
recoverv of Rostov by the Russians, together with the entry of the T mted States
into the war, afforded something to daunt our enemies and hearten our friends,
but the early successes of the Japanese were an influence on the other side, and
it was not surprising that with the issue of the war still uncertain the unheroic
Persians should do their best not to commit themselves.
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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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