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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [44r] (87/807)
The record is made up of 1 file (401 folios). It was created in 11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942. It was written in English. 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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October 25, 1937.
Section 1.
[E 6262/560/34] Copy No. j ^4
Mr. SeymoiLr to Mr. Eden.—(Received October 25.)
(No. 382.)
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 copy of Intelligence Summary No. 20 for the period ending the
9th October, compiled by the military attache to this Legation.
Tehran, October 9, 1937.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Intelligence Summary No. 20 for the Period ending October 9. 1937.
1 . The Shah.
HIS Imperial Majesty the Shah held a levee on the 4th October in the
Gulistan Palace on the occasion of the festival of Mabas (assumption of the
prophetic office by Mahomet). Cabinet Ministers, Deputies of the Majlis and
leading officials attended.
2 Iranian Officials.
(i) Mahmud Bader (P. in I., No. 37 (ii)), Acting Minister of Finance since
March 1937, has been confirmed in that appointment.
(ii) According to the Messager de Teheran of the 26th September, the
Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs will pay an official visit to Angora in
October and to Bagdad at the end of the same month.
(iii) Owing, it is officially stated, to the increased importance of the
Departments of Commerce and Industry, Ala (P. in I., No. 9) and Farrukh
(P. in I., No. 60 (ii)), hitherto styled Directors-General of these two departments,
have now been promoted to the rank of Minister.
(iv) Reference Intelligence Summary No. 15 (current), paragraph 3 (iii),
Qasim Sur (also known as Qasim Sur Israfil) (P. in I., No. 208) has been appointed
Governor of Gilan (and not of Kerman) in place of Saiyid Mehdi Fatimi
(P. in I., No. 65) recalled.
3. Swedish Interests.
His Excellency von Heidenstam, Swedish Minister, has returned to Iran
from three months’ leave.
4. Industries.
On the 28th September His Imperial Majesty the Shah opened the new
cigarette and tobacco
factory
An East India Company trading post.
built near the old Qazvin Gate. The cost of the
building was 26,054,000 rials (£325,675 at present rates), and that of the
machinery 22,555,196 rials (£281,942 at present rates). Its capacity is said to be
12 i million cigarettes, 22,000 kilog. of pipe tobacco, and 8,000 kilog. of water-
pipe tobacco per day. The building was the work of Skoda, and the machinery
was supplied in about equal proportions by British and German firms.
5. Economic.
According to a Bushire consular report, the Iranian Government has ordered
a large quantity of wheat from India to relieve the situation (almost amountino- i
to famine) which the over-export of wheat to Italy and Germany had created. ° I
6 Amiranian Oil Company.
Four additional geologists have arrived in Iran from America
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Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), 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. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover sheets and 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. notes sheets, the latter frequently containing handwritten notes giving a précis of the summary’s contents. The summaries cover a broad range of information, including: the activities of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Crown Prince, and other members of the royal family; activities of the Iranian Government and its officials; activities, organisation and strength of the Iranian army and Iranian air force; communications and transport, including wireless radio, and civil aviation routes into and out of Iran; British interests in Iran, including oil companies, specifically the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; foreign interests in Iran; the Iranian press, focussing specifically on its criticism of foreign press and actions; commercial activities in Iran, including mining and factory An East India Company trading post. production; tribal matters, including those in the Bahmai and Baluchistan provinces, and the Qashqai; place name changes in Iran. Proceedings prior to and during the Second World War are also covered in the summaries. These include: German activity in Iran (commercial, political, propaganda, Nazi organisation); movements of peoples; public opinion in Iran in response to events in Europe in 1940; the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941; the abdication of Reza Shah Pahlavi; public opinion in Iran in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion and occupation; social unrest and anti-British feeling.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 403; 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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