Ext 5000/41(8) 'Persian situation: miscellaneous reports on wheat situation'

Content

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the production and supply of wheat in Persia.

The discussion in the volume includes:

• the UK-US coordination efforts and its relationship with supplies from the Soviet Union
• UK-US staffing of personnel in the Persian government concerned with wheat supply deficiencies and their impact on the high cost of living
• inefficiency of the Persian government in managing a bumper harvest in 1944
• quotas, laws and transport issues relating to wheat production

Included in the volume is a copy (ff 122r:122v) of the 'Progress Report: Wheat Supervision Scheme, September 1943'.

The principal correspondents in the volume include the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under-Secretary of State for India; the Ministry of Food, London; the Middle East Supply Centre, Cairo; and the War Cabinet.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 volume (278 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 280; these numbers are written in pencil 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.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/558

History of this record

Date(s)

13 Apr 1943-11 Nov 1946 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Farm suppliesMilitary administrationWheat

Places

Persia

People & organisations

War CabinetPolitical Resident, Persian GulfSecretary of State for Foreign Affairs

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Ext 5000/41(8) 'Persian situation: miscellaneous reports on wheat situation', British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/558, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000517.0x000113> [accessed 26 August 2024]

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