مجموعة ٢٨ /٦٧ "بلاد فارس: تقارير سنوية، ١٩٣٢-" [ظ‎‎١‎٦‎٦] (٦٤٤/٣٣٢)

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II.—Foreign relations (continued )—
(A) United Kingdom and India
(continued )—
(5) The Anglo-Iranian Oil Com
pany ... ... ... ... 104
(6) The Imperial Bank of Iran ... 107
(7) Claims ... ... ... ... Ill
(8) Complaints of British air
craft flying over Iranian terri
tory ... ... ... ... 114
(9) British subjects in difficulties 116
(10) Foreign exchange difficulties... 120
(11) Murder of Mr. E. A. Fear ... 126
(12) Doctors and mid wives ... 128
(18) Legation property ... ... 132
(14) Legation wireless ... ... 184
(15) Consular affairs ... ... 139
(16) British cultural propaganda... 145
(B) Canada ... ... ... ... 149
(C) Iraq—
(1) General ... ... ... ... 150
(2) Agreements ... ... ... 200
(D) Other countries—
(1) Turkey 201
(2) Afghanistan ... ... ... 204
(3) Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics ... ... ... 207
(4) Germanv ... ... ... 211
(5) Italy v 215
(6) France ... ... ... ... 218
(7) The United States ... ... 220
(8) Belgium ... ... ... 223
(9) The Netherlands ... ... 224
(10) Norway ... ... ... 225
(11) Sweden ... ... ... 226
(12) Switzerland ... ... ... 227
(13) Austria ... ... ... ... 228
(14) Roumania ... ... ... 229
(15) Greece ... ... ... ... 230
(16) Japan ... ... ... ... 231
(17) Egypt ... ... ... ... 232
(18) The Yemen ... ... ... 233
(E) International—
(1) League of Nations ... ... 234
(2) Middle-Eastern Pact of Non-
Aggression ... ... ... 238
(3) List of treaties ... ... 240
III.—Internal affairs (political)—
(A) General ... ... ... ... 241
(B) The Shah 249
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III. —Internal affairs (political) (con
tinued )—
(C) Officials—
(1) Cabinet ... ••• ••• 252
(2) Governors-General and Gover
nors ... ... ... ••• 256
(3) Diplomatic appointments
abroad ... ... 257
(D) Legislation ... 258
(E) Sheikh of Mohammerah ... 259
(F) Miscellaneous—
(1) Publicity ... ... ... 261
(2) Press ... ... ... ... 263
(3) Strike in the National
Teachers’ College ... ... 265
IV. —Military affairs—
(A) The army—
(1) General ... 267
(2) Expenditure ... ... ... 268
(3) Strength ... ... ... 269
(4) Organisation ... ... ... 270
(5) Armament ... ... ... 271
(6) Remounts ... ... ... 272
(7) Changes in the higher appoint
ments ... ... ... ... 273
(8) Conscription ... ... ... 274
(9) Manoeuvres ... ... ... 275
(10) Reviews and parades ... ... 278
(11) Military operations 279
(12) Military works... ... ... 281
(13) Foreign military missions ... 282
(14) Colleagues ... ... ... 285
(15) British officers—travellers ... 291
(B) The Iranian air force—
(1) Strength in machines... ... 292
(2) Location ... ... ... 294
(3) Casualties ... ... ... 295
(4) New orders ... ... ... 296
(5) Factories ... ... ... 297
(6) Landing grounds and aero
dromes ... ... 300
(7) Educational establishments ... 301
(8) Petrol storage tanks ... ... 302
(9) Photographic equipment ... 303
(10) Foreign air missions ... ... 304
(11) Reconnaissance flights ... 305
(12) Visits of Iranian air force
officers to Europe ... ... 306
(C) The Iranian navy... ... ... 307
(D) Gendarmerie ... ... ... 311
I.—Introduction.
DURING 1936 Iran continued to follow the path marked out during earlier
years by the Shah. Work on the railway, the most grandiose outward sign of
His Majesty’s policy of modernisation, continued steadily, and it is believed that
the line will be finished in advance of the due date. The erection of factories
and the policy of instituting monopoly companies in numerous branches of trade
were pressed forward. Public order remained good. But it cannot be said that
any improvement took place in the lot of the vast majority of the people.
Taxation remains very heavy, and it is too soon for the ambitious programme of
public works to produce any dividend in the form of an improved standard of
living.
2. During the year it became steadily more difficult for the Iranian Govern
ment to finance at the same time the railway, heavy importations of railway supplies
and the operations of the monopoly companies. The supply of foreign exchange,
which in March was subjected to the control of a Government Commission, became