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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [4v] (8/320)
The record is made up of 1 file (158 folios). It was created in 11 Oct 1937-25 Nov 1942. It was written in English and French. 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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5. In tents erected by the roadside the local authorities and the Chamber
of Commerce had laid out on tables samples of various local products, e.g.,
gum tragacanth, cotton, tobacco, wool and beetroots. His Majesty
inspected these exhibits and gave orders that in future the cultivation of
opium should be decreased and that the area under cotton should be increased,
urging that the cultivation of one quality of cotton (of American origin) should
be specially developed. In the course of his conversation with the repre
sentatives of the Chamber of Commerce he made the remark that it was en
tirely thanks to him that the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company had built their
Refinery at Kermanshah, an industrial development which, he claimed, was
bringing prosperity to the town. I cannot, of course, say whether the Shah
is entitled to claim the credit for this development but there can be no doubt
whatever but thab the establishment of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s
Refinery here has brought some measure of prosperity to Kermanshah for
the Refinery’s monthly wage-bill alone amounts to over 600,000 Rials (i.e.,
about £8,000), most of which is spent in the town.
6. After the brief halt at Taq-i-Bostan His Majesty and the Vali-Ahd
with an escort of five cars, each containing four Imperial Guards armed with
short rifles, motored past the Refinery into Kermanshah and went straight
to he Governor’s house. The town had been gaily decorated and ten tri
umphal arches had been erected to show some outward sign of the populations’
supposed pleasure at receiving the visit of the Shah and the Vali-Ahd. The
streets were thronged with the population but as the police, prior to the Shah’s
arrival, had given strict orders that no cheering or hand-clapping was to be
allowed when the Shah passed through the streets, there was little outward
enthusiasm to greet the Shah and the Vali-Ahd during their progress through
the town. The Police Authorities forbade the people to occupy first or second
floor windows or balconies lining the route, it being desired to prevent as far
as possible, any risk of an attempt on the Shah’s life.
7. The Shah having spent only a few minutes at the Governor’s housa
on his arrival, left immediately to inspect the local barracks. Not having
notified the Military Authorities of his intention to do this so soon after his
arrival, the Shah found practically no officers or troops there^—the garrison ‘ en
masse ’ still being at Teq-i-Bostan, eight kilometers away, where His Majesty
had seen it on parade on his arrival, a bare half-hour earlier. The officers
who turned out to salute His Majesty on his arrival at the Barracks were
severely reprimanded because they did not salute him correctly with their
swords. The Shah having visited the troops’ quarters and tasted the food
which was being cooked for the soldiers’ supper, is reported to have expressed
himself as generally satisfied with the barrack buildings but as disgusted
with their dirty condition.
8. On His Majesty’s return to the Governor’s house where he spent the
night, he received there the heads of the local Government Departments,
and questioned them on a number of administrative matters and regarding
the development of the town. The Shah is reported to have reprimanded
some of the officials for their lack of energy in executing the Government’s
instructions or in carrying out public works in the town. In particular,
he is stated to have severely reprimanded the Rais-i-Baladiyeh (Chief of
Municipality) for having failed to lay down pipes for conveying drinking
water to the town, a project which His Majesty ordered to be carried out two
years ago, during his previous visit to Kermanshah. The Governor too is
said to have been reprimanded for not having demolished old houses and
built new roads through the town.
9. His Majesty’s feelings of annoyance were hardly soothed when, after he
had dismissed the local authorities and was sitting at the dinner-table, the
electric lights in the Governor’s house went out, the electric installation at
the house being unequal to the unusual strain imposed upon it. His Majesty is
reported to have got into a panic when the house was plunged into darkness—
possibly he feared that his safety was endangered—and to have lost his temper
with the Governor here. Indeed it is rumoured that the Shah who, I am told,
does not consider it necessary to restrain his feelings of anger or annoyance
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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department), collated into yearly collections under the heading ‘Iran Series’. The original correspondence was sent by British representatives in Iran (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran) to the Foreign Office. The correspondence concerns: the announcement of laws, decrees, regulations, and budgets by the Government of Iran, the texts of which were frequently published in the newspaper Le Journal de Tehran ; reports from British consular officials covering a range of subjects, including commercial activities, foreign relations and the commercial activities of foreign individuals and companies in Iran, provincial affairs, and the activities of the Shah; in 1939 and 1940, reports concerning the impact of the Second World War on Iran, with a large number of reports from the Press Attaché to the British Legation in Tehran, reporting the dissemination of propaganda and public opinion in Iran.
At the end of the file is a single item of original correspondence, sent by the Secretary to the Government of India. Dated 24 August 1942, it announces the discontinuation of the printing of the Persia [Iran] series for the duration of the war (f 159).
A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Iranian Government laws, regulations and announcements that were published in Le Journal de Tehran .
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.
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- 1 file (158 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
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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 160; 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.
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- Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:7r, 8r:11r, 12v:14v, 16r:16v, 20r, 23r:32r, 34r:41v, 42v:48r, 50v:55r, 56r:61r, 63r:65r, 68r:69r, 71v, 75v:77v, 79r:81v, 82v:85v, 89r, 91r:91v, 92v:93r, 94v:96v, 97v:101r, 102v:108v, 115r:118r, 124r, 125r:130v, 132r:134r, 136r:139r, 141r:141v, 145r:146v, 149r:151r, 152r:153v, 154v:159v, back-i, back
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