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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [27r] (53/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
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August 27, 1942.
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Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received August 27.)
(No. 276.) . . . , . j
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty-s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 33, the 12th-18th August, compiled
by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, August 18, 1942.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Military Attache's Intelliaence Summary No. 33 for the Period August 12-18,
1942.
Persian Affairs.
Political.
THE name of Ahmad Adi, Minister of Agriculture, was inadvertently
omitted from the list of Cabinet Ministers given in paragraph 1 of last
summary. He held the same portfolio in the last Cabinet.
2. The programme of the new Government was approved by the Majlis
by 109 votes out of 116. The Cabinet has as yet given no indication of the
quality of its performance.
3. It is now confirmed that the delay in appointing the Minister for N\ ar
is due to disagreement between the Shah and the Prime Minister regarding the
degree of authority over the army that should be exercised by the Minister for
War. The Shah, encouraged by the Chief of the General Staff, wishes to
maintain a right to issue orders regarding the army direct to the Chief of the
General Staff, the concurrence of the Minister for War, if necessary at all, to be
an automatic formality. He argues that that is the only way to preserve
continuity and to protect the army from the evils that would result if military
policy were to be at the mercy of a succession of short-lived Cabinets. The Prime
Minister, on the other hand, wishes to establish complete Cabinet control of the
army, through the Minister for War, who, he argues, should be a civilian, so
that questions of military seniority should not arise as regards the Minister for
War and the Chief of the General Staff. The Belgian Military Attache has, at
the request of the Shah, drawn up a note explaining the relative constitutional
positions of the King, the Minister for War and the Chief of the General Staff
in the army in Belgium.
Economic.
4. Estimates of the wheat supplies available are being made by Persian
authorities in the provinces. Reports hitherto available indicate that these
officials have been persuaded by landowners to state that supplies are little more
than sufficient for local needs, and that, consequently, there is little surplus
available for sale to Government at the controlled price, for the feeding of towns
such as Tehran, for making up local deficits—as for example in Ears, where
there is a definite shortage, and for supplying abnormal needs such as large
concentrations of labourers, who would normally be fed in their own villages.
Apart from the fact that a fairly brisk trade is being carried on in the black
market, reports by competent observers w^ere to the effect that the harvests in
certain areas, notably Khuzistan and Kermanshah, were such as to produce an
appreciable surplus. His Majesty’s Consul-General in Khorassan reports, after
a recent tour in the Kuchan-Darajaz area, that harvests there are first class and
he is optimistic that Khorassan should have a considerable surplus. It is evident
that the greater part of the harvest surplus to the needs of the cultivator, and
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the 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. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 375; 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.
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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