Coll 28/89 ‘Persia. Reports regarding the education, etc., of the Crown Prince and proceedings of the Royal Family.’ [8r] (15/149)
The record is made up of 1 file (72 folios). It was created in 12 Sep 1931-18 Jan 1949. 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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31 DEC1948
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OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER
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Dear Y« T alsh-Atkins,
21st December, 19
We received from you on the 13th December a copy of a letter addressed
presumably by the Embassy in Tehran, to Michael - presumably Michael Wright - of
the Foreign Office, about the departure of Princess Ashraf, twin sister o± the
Shah of Persia A for Delhi. The copy of the Tehran letter, as it reached us,
y had three reference numbers on it, vis., ,rol.Ext.l7£&4-/AB , h,o. 0-259/7/48 and
" ' " 14940, and was dated 10th November.
2. In the course of his stay in Delhi, v/here he came to attend both the Inter
national Meteorological Conference and the International Civil Aviation Regional
Conference, which follov/ed each other in close succession in November and early
December, Mr. Chafik, the Director General of Civil Aviation in Iran, contrived
to negotiate a temporary air transport agreement with the Government of India,
whereby it was agreed that an Iranian airline designated by the Government of
Iran, and an Indian airline designated by the Government of India, should oper
ate on the Tehran/Bombay route via Zahidan and Karachi. The Government of
India were represented during the negotiations by Mr. 7.A.R.Menon, oecretary of
the Ministry of Communications. Iranian Airways started this service on
December 10th.
3. Y/e gather that on the way back to Tehran Hr. Chafik was due to enter negotia
tions with the Government of Pakistan for a permanent bilateral air agreement
with Pakistan. A separate report on these negotiations will no doubt be sent
home to you by Karachi.
4. On their arrival in Delhi Mr. Chafik and his wife. Princess Ashraf, and
Princess Ashraf 1 s sister. Princess Fatima, were guests of the Governor General
in Government House. In the course of their stay* they made some rather astonish
ing remarks, Princess Ashraf setting the pace at dinner on tne first night
when she began the conversation by asking H.E. whether he ate monkeys, and when
he demurred, asking him whether he worshipped them.
5. I personally had a most illuminating conversation with Princess Fatima,
which ran on the following lines:-
’’Does Australia belong to you?” -
’No".
"But they fought for you during the war, didn’t they" -
"Yes, but so did about 30 other nations" -
"India fought for you, didn't it" -
"Yes, jolly well, in/Africa and Italy particularly" -
"It must be wonderful having colonies to do your fighting for you" -
"They aren't colonies" -
"But they fought for you, didn't they?"
"So did the U.3.A.' "or that mAtter". -
"Yes, th^t' s true\j^j*t,.
*Did Canada fight for you?"
"Yes. Don’t you remember Dieppe and Northern Europe?"
"Yes, it really is wonderful having all those colonies to do your
fighting for you. You didn't have to do any, did you." -
L.B.w’alsh— .trins
Commonwealth Relations Office,
A.
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Correspondence from the British Legation in Tehran, press cuttings, and copies of Persian Government announcements (in French) relating to the movements and activities of members of the Persian royal family, and in particular, the Crown Prince, Muḥammad Reza Pahlavi. The file covers: the Crown Prince and the Persian Minister of Court’s [Abdolhossein Khan Teymourtash] visit to Europe in 1931; reports on the education of the Crown Prince in Geneva, Switzerland, between 1935 and 1936; the Shah’s betrothal of his two daughters in 1936; the engagement and wedding of the Crown Prince to the Egyptian Princess Fowzieh [Fawzia Fuad] in 1938; constitutional changes to Persian law and the conference of Iranian nationality upon Princess Fowzieh; British officials’ desire to discourage ‘sensational newspapers and magazines’ from Britain from covering the Crown Prince’s wedding; the activities and movements after the Second World War of Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Muḥammad Reza Pahlavi, and her husband Ahmed Chafik Bey, Director of Civil Aviation in Iran.
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- 1 file (72 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front 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 74; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, front-i, 2r:24v, 26r:26v, 28r:32v, 35r:35v, 38r:56v, 58r:59v, 61r:62v, 65r:74v, back
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