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PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [‎224v] (448/715)

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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He did not ask for the German proposals and Herr von Ribbentrop
did not offer to give them to him. Their meeting lasted but a
few minutes.
62. Early in the morning I had rung up the State Secretaiy
and, after pointing out that the German Government had promised
to communicate these proposals to His Majesty s Government, and k
how helpless I was without the authorised text of them, had asked
him to suggest to Herr von Ribbentrop once more that they should
be communicated to me. I heard no more from Baron von \\eizsacker
until late in the evening, when I received a message asking me to
call upon him at 9‘15 p.m. Similar messages had been sent to
the French Ambassador and to the United States Charge d Affaires,
giving them appointments for 9'30 and 9'45 respectively. I
accordingly called on Baron von Weizsacker at the hour named and
received from him the text of the proposals, together with an
explanatory statement^ 7 ) As both these documents had already
been broadcast at 9 p.m. I asked the Secretary of State what was
the point now of making these communications to me. Baron von
Weizsacker observed that he w r as merely carrying out his instructions
and that he could make no further statement to me. I could only
infer from this reply that Herr Hitler had taken his final decision.
I accordingly drafted that night a telegram to your Lordship to the
effect that it would be quite useless for me to make any further
suggestions since they would now only be outstripped by events and
that the only course remaining to us was to show our inflexible
determination to resist force by force.
63. In point of fact the advance into Poland had been ordered
that night, and in the early hours of the 1st September without
any declaration of war the German army crossed the frontier and
the German Air Force proceeded to bomb the Polish aerodromes
and lines of communications.
64. In accordance with Herr Hitler’s usual technique everything
was done by the German authorities to prove to the German public
that it was the Poles who had been the aggressors instead of the
aggressed. Cynical notices were communicated at 6 a.m. to His
Majesty’s Embassy notifying me that the Bay of Danzig was closed
both to navigation and to flying in view of the possibility of military
operations ‘ ‘ against hostile attacks by Polish naval forces or by
Polish aircraft.” Field-Marshal Goring also sent me a message to
say that the Poles had begun the war by blowing up the bridge across
the Vistula at Dirchau, while Herr Hitler himself issued a proclama
tion to the German army, declaring that the Polish State had refused
the settlement which he offered and had appealed to arms, that the
Germans in Poland were being persecuted by a bloody terror, and
that the Poles were no longer willing to respect the frontier of the
German Reich. Every German newspaper repeated the lie that it
0 Idem No. 98.

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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.

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1 file (357 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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English, French and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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PZ 5749/39(1) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination' [‎224v] (448/715), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/303, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100061940184.0x000033> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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