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'File 11/44 Leading Personalities in Iraq, Iran & Saudi Arabia' [‎14v] (28/96)

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The record is made up of 1 file (46 folios). It was created in 27 Jun 1947-19 Jul 1948. 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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Affairs. In 1934 appointed counsellor at Berlin.
Consul-general, Hamburg, 1938. Head of
Personnel Department, Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, April 1939.
Head of the second section of the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs, which deals with Iraq and Turkey,
1942. Minister at Berne 1944.
Married to a German lady.
Speaks French. A voluble little man, who has
a great idea of his own importance, and has never
gone out of his way to give us any help.
115. Qadimi, Dr. Hv^ain
Born in Tehran 1895. The second son of the late
Asadullah Ghadimi, Mushar-es-Saltaneh. Educated
in France, and holds a doctor’s degree. Attach^
at Paris 1918-21. Married to a French lady. At
the Ministry for Foreign Affairs 1922-23. Secretary
at Berne and for the League of Nations 1924-28.
Chief of the League of Nations and Treaty Section
of the Ministry 1929-32. Charg4 d’Affaires at
Stockholm 1932. Counsellor at Berne 1936.
Director of the League of Nations Section of the
Advisory Department of the Ministry, 1937, and
of the League of Nations Department, when that
section was raised to a department in September
1938. Minister at Berne 1941-44.
Speaks perfect French. A very efficient man
at his job.
116. Qajar, Abul Fath (Salar-ud-Daulah)
Born the 1st November, 1881, the third son of
Muzaffar-ud-Din Shah. Governor of Kermanshah
in 1897; of Zinjan in 1899 and 1900, and of
Arabistan from 1901 to 1904, where he married
the daughter of a local chief. Fled from Tehran
to Luristan in April 1904, but was brought back
and appointed Governor of Kurdistan in 1905.
Collected tribesmen from Luristan and rebelled
against Muhammad Ali Shah in . June 1907. A
fight occurred in that month between his followers
and the Shah’s troops outside Nihavend. He was
defeated and took refuge at the British consulate
at Kermanshah, but was handed over to the Persian
authorities under a promise of personal safety.
Thereafter he was placed under surveillance and
was considered mentally deranged. Expelled to
Europe after coup d’Etat of 1908.
Entered Persia again in May 1911 from the
direction of Bagdad. In the following July he
seized the capital of Kurdistan and advanced on
Kermanshah. Having arrived there he collected
a large force of Lurs, including the Kalhur tribe,
and marched on Tehran via Sultanabad. Bakhtiaris
and Armenian irregulars were sent against him
and inflicted a severe defeat on him near Nubaran
in September 1911. He then retreated to Luristan
and was again defeated in November 1911.
Having been at large in Kermanshah and
Kurdistan for some time, he suddenly appeared
near Tehran and threatened, but did not actually
attack, the capital. He then betook himself to
Asterabad whence, with the assistance of Russian
influence, he carried on negotiations with the
Persian Government to be appointed Governor of
Gilan. After some further adventures he was
persuaded to leave Persia with a pension from the
Persian Government and resided in Switzerland
till 1918.
In that year he formed a project to enter Persia
through Transcaspia and raise a revolt in the
Asterabad district. He was caught by a British
detachment in about December 1918 before crossing
the Persian frontier, and was sent via Kazvin
to Bagdad where he was interned till the following
autumn, when he was again allowed to return to
Switzerland.
He slipped over the Iraq-Persian frontier in June
1926 somehow avoiding the Iraq police authorities.
His presence caused considerable embarrassment
to the new Pahlavi Government who realised that
Salar, however mad, was a possible rallying point
for the forces of reaction. However, after fruitless
negotiations with various Kurdish chiefs, during
which he contracted marriage with the daughters
of some of them, he left Persia in the autumn
of 1926. The Persian Government from that date
paid him a subsidy of 1,500 rials per month from
secret funds up to September 1933. Salar was
persuaded to settle down at Haifa after having
given an ambiguous promise to behave himself.
On the cessation of his subsidy in 193a he was
informed by British authorities that he was free
to do what he liked. In 1935 living at Alexandria,
where he has employed lawyers to press his claims
against His Majesty’s Government.
Speaks French. Scatter-brained and under-sized.
Still reported to be at Alexandria 1945; has not
attempted to return to Persia after Reza Shah’s
fall; but his two sons, who have been living in
penury at Tehran for many years, are trying
to get back some of the family properties.
117. Qaraguzlu, Ali Riza (Baha-ul-Mulk)
Born about 1880. Owns property at Hamadan,
and is a cousin of the late Nasir-ul-Mulk. Has
lived in Europe for a number of years and isa
graduate of the School of Political Sciences^Vj^
Paris. Elected to the fourth Majlis as member
for Hamadan. Appointed Minister of Finance in
1923, though he had held no Government office
before. Resigned in April 1923, as he found that
he was controlled by Dr. Millspaugh. President
of the Government Supervisory Board of the
National Bank of Persia 1929-32.
Minister of Justice in Qawam-es-Saltaneh’s
Cabinet of August 1942; resigned in the following
January without having accomplished anything
valuable. An honest politician, but much too old
to learn anything new or useful. Lives in Tehran;
used frequently to visit Paris. A queer and
eccentric man, with a reputation for honesty.
118. Qaraguzlu, Husain Ali
Second and younger son of the late Nasir-ul-
Mulk, Regent of Persia. Born in 1900. Educated
at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. Married
the daughter of Teymourtache in 1931; and divorp*
her in 1935. An attache at the Legation in Lono^r^
1931. In the same capacity at Paris 1932^
Returned to Tehran at the end of that year, and
since employed in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
at first in the Treaty Department, and from the
end of 1936 in the Protocol Department. Trans
ferred to the Ministry of Interior at the end of 1937.
Resigned from Government service in 1938 and
took to chicken farming. After the fall of Reza
Shah was not employed in Government service
until he became secretary to Dr. Millspaugh at
the end of 1942; and in May 1943 was employed
at Court, his brother-in-law, Ala, being Minister
of Court.
Charming but ineffective; his failure to fulfil his
early promise has been a disappointment, but a
believer in Anglo-Persian co-operation. An idealist
with a certain intelligence and a reputation for
honesty.
Speaks perfect English and French.
119. Nizam-Qaraguzlu, Husain Quli
(Amir Nizam).
Born in 1883, the eldest son of the late Amir
Nizam. A member of the Qaragozlu family of
Hamadan and a nephew of the late Regent, Nasir-
ul-Mulk. Educated in England and Austria
Passed through the Military Academy at Vienna,
and served with a commission in an Austrian

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This file contains copies of the following Foreign Office documents:

  • 'Leading Personalities in Persia, 1947' (folios 3-20)
  • 'Leading Personalities in Iraq, 1947' (folios 21-36)
  • 'Leading Personalities in Saudi Arabia, 1948' (folios 37-47).
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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 48; 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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