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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [‎304r] (607/644)

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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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evident. But it is reasonable to expect that Colonel Schwarzkopf's energy and
drive will produce results in time. Handicapped, as he is by inadequate iun s
inadequate American staff, the lack of any co-ordinated policy on the part ot tne
Government and an unwillingness on his part to admit that the best may
times be the enemy of the good, he could perhaps not fairly be expec e o
effected much improvement in an organisation as demoralised, as lethargic ana as
^uninspired by any laudable ideal as the Persian gendarmene.
Persian Air Force.
146. The fighting value of the Persian Air Force remains as it was a year
ago—virtually negligible. During the second half of 1944 no fuel was aval a e
and flying was brought to a standstill. In the air therefore the force 18 P 1 *? ^
even worse than it was, though a short conversion course on Ansons which was
given to ten pilots in Egypt in the summer did some good. On the ground stea ) ,
Though very slow, progress under Royal Air Force guidance has been made w th
the maintenance of airframes and engines, but the continued loss of semoi
technical non-commissioned officers to civilian employment is a grave handicap.
147 The fifteen Ansons supplied by His Majesty s Government in excha g
for ten Mohawks taken over in 1941 were delivered m August. Tsow that the
Persian Air Force at last has some fuel and can fly them they should prove
increasingly useful for operational and communications purposes.
148. Sarlashkar Hassein Firuz, who was commanding the Air Force at the
beginning of the year left it to become Governor-General of Pars m the earl}
summer ° He was succeeded by Sarlashkar Ahmad Kakhchevan, a very semoi
officer who had built up the Force in the 1930’s, but whose prestige was greater
than his energy. He paid a formal visit to the United Kingdom m November,
partly in connexion with a scheme for training his Air Force on Hurricanes,
but he had hardly left this country when he was replaced by Sartip Ahmad
Khosrovani, another Air Force officer, who had, however, not been employed m
the Air Force since 1941 but who was a friend of the L nder-Secretai y of ^ ai
and had suddenly become available on his expulsion by the Russians from Tabuz
where he had been commanding troops. Sartip Khosrovani is showing commend
able energy in his command, but his ideas about most things are out of date^
Sarlashka^ Nakhchevan, whose training scheme fell with him was offered but
declined the post of Inspector-General of the Air Force and left almost at once
on an official visit to America where he still is.
Civil A irlines in Persia.
149. During the year the Iranian State Airline has continued its lehran-
Bao-dad service. Following the delivery in the autumn of two of fj 16 tir o e
Hominies ordered from the United Kingdom by the Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs
and Telephones the frequency has been increased to a nominal twice ■>
in each direction. The airline is operating from Mehrabad airfield under Royal
Air Force control with crews seconded from the Persian Air Force, who are
trying with some success to conform to present-day airfield and control procedure
The third Dominie met with a minor accident on its delivery flight at the end
of the year but is expected in Tehran shortly. An experimental service from
Tehran to Isfahan, Shiraz and Bushire was run once or twice m the summer
but was not established owing to shortage of aircraft It may soon be revived.
150. Durino , ‘ the summer a group of prominent Persians formed a eompan}
which is seeking^ the monopoly of air transport within the country Part of
their scheme may be also to take over the existing postal service to Bagdad.
Sarlashkar Nakhchevan is acting as technical adviser and the moving spnit is
G H Ibtihai the present Mayor of Tehran. The company professes to be
, anxious to work with British interests, particularly the British Overseas Airways
Corporation, and some of its members are genuine in this. There is, however
reason to believe that Ibtihaj himself is at the same time in close touch with
the Americans. The company has yet to secure formal acceptance of its proposals
bv the Government. , ^ ^ • ,
' * 151 T p e frequency of the British Overseas Airway Corporation service to
Bagdad Damascus and Cairo was increased in the summer to thrice weekly
in each direction. It runs to capacity, the small space left over after meeting
official demands being readily taken up by non-official passengers and freight.
152. In the spring the Russians began, to carry non-Soviet passengers tor
navment on their military aircraft plying between Meshed, Tabriz and Pahlevi
and the capital. This led the Persian Government to issue a circular to the
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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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