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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [59v] (118/807)
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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5. A miranian Oil Company.
The survey of this company in the Tabas area is rumoured to have been
disappointing. Of the results of their survey in the Gorgan area little is known.
The general impression gathered is that the company’s chief interest is in
Afghanistan rather than in Iran.
6 . Travellers — Officers.
Lieutenant H. M. Siddiq Choudri of the Royal Indian navy has arrived in
Tehran en route to India, on expiry of leave in the United Kingdom.
7. Iranian A rmy.
According to a consular report from East Iran, Sartip Tajbaksh, the
Governor-General of Mekran, has been summoned to Tehran. According to him
he is likely to be offered a high military appointment. (The post of Minister of
War is still vacant.) According to other local rumours, he has been summoned
to confer with the Iranian Government regarding the proposed military action
against the Ismailzais.
8 . The Press.
1 he only so-called insult to Iran in the foreign press to cause comment
in the Iranian papers of the past fortnight has been an article in the Izvestiya of
the 11 th December, in which unfavourable notice was taken of the warm reception
given to Von Schirach and the members of the German Youth League. This was
denounced by the Izvestiya as a piece of Nazi propaganda, and as hotly defended
by the Iranian press as a natural act of hospitality.
9. Iranian Officials.
Abbas Quli Gharib, Mutarjim-ul-Mamalik (P. in L, No. 70 (ii)), Director
of the Press and Translation Department of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, has
been appointed Iranian consul-general in Turkey in place of Farrukh Braehon
(P. in L, No. 49), deceased.
G. D. PYBU S, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Military A ttache.
Tehran, January 1 , 1938.
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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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- 1 file (401 folios)
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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 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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- Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:113v, 115r:123v, 125r:139r, 140r:143v, 145r:148v, 150r:197r, 198v:243r, 244r:309v, 311r:348r, 349r:403v, back
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