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PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [124r] (247/715)
The record is made up of 1 file (357 folios). It was created in 10 Aug 1939-27 Dec 1941. It was written in English, French and Arabic. 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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Infn.Offr a 2005/1939.
P.& J, Department (1)
Mr. Walton (1)
Mr. H.V. Hodson (1)
Mr. Burton Leach (1)
Mr. L-P. Rushbrook
Williams (1)
Telegraph Branch (1)
Political Registry
(for Air Mail) (10)
Spares (7)
I.W.C.
COPT OF TELEGRAM Prom Secretary of State to
Government of India, External Affaris
Department, Ko.3121 M, dated 29th
November, 1939.
Addressed by Secretary of State for
India to Government of India and
repeated to HoM.’s Minister at Kabul
and Governor of Burma, Defence
Department, No.565 M, and by Government
of India to Katmandu. Copies air-mailed
to
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
,
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
and
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Bahrain.
Following from Ministry of Information for publicity.
Begins < Germans trying undermine financial confidence Britain
by pretending two ten thousand pounds gold shown in Bank of
England return constitutes British gold reserve. This Bank
reserve is merely negligible fraction of British gold reserve
held almost entirely by exchange,control. On outbreak of war
control took over two sixty millions of gold from bank to add
to its previous reserve available for support pound. French
Government has announced large increase in its foreign
exchange reserves since outbreak of war. British owned foreign
securities estimated value easily one thousand million pounds,
French also having foreign security holings compared with
which German holdings negligible. German exchange shown
utterly artificial by German government bringing political
pressure on Roumania to take payment in Reichsmarks at
fifty-six lei instead of forty. Germans continually issuing
new brands of currency for instance steuergutsohrine of which
compelled suspend issues by public diffidence- and later
military delivery bills. Ends .
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The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, relating to British propaganda forwarded to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. for dissemination.
It largely consists of weekly telegrams from the Secretary of State for India, London, to the Government of India and others. The telegrams contain Ministry of Information news items about the war in Europe (Second World War) and how to communicate them in press, publicity and public relations work overseas. Recipients include the Government of India’s Bureau of Public Information; the Publicity Officer, Bahrain; and HM Minister, Kabul.
The file also includes an extract (in Arabic translation and French original) from the book Redressement économique et Industrialisation de la Nouvelle Turquie , by Orhan Conker and Emile Witmeur, published Paris, 1937. The title is also referred to in English as 'Economic Recovery and Industrialization of New Turkey'.
The file includes two dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (357 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Written in
- English, French and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/303
- Title
- PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:110v, 112r:115v, 118r:318v, 322r:357r, 358v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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