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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [53r] (105/320)
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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at that Town, and that this had also been the case last year. Monsieur Ansarie
said that the Iranian Government were astonished that a notice should be posted
in Arabic, especially wdien it has been decided to purify the Persian language of
Arabic words, and they thought the notice should have been in Persian, English
or trench. Monsieur Ansarie asked that the matter might be investigated.
2. His Majesty’s Consul at Shiraz, to whom the matter was referred, has in
formed me that such a notice was in fact displayed in the gate-house of the Consulate.
It was one of the usual Arabic translations of the ordinary notice distributed bv the
Department of Overseas Trade to posts in the Near and Middle East. As vou are
aware, the question of the Persian language and its script is one on which the
Iranian Government are at present particularly sensitive. All signs and notices
written in anything but Arabic script have been forbidden, and only recently the
Government have published regulations, on which I am reporting separately, re
quiring that all accounts and business correspondence should be in Persian. Al
though there can be no doubt of a Consul’s right to displav in his own Consulate,
notices in any language he wishes, in the circumstances, I think that it is desirable,
that notices in Arabic should not be displayed at posts in this country except those
at which there are likely to be non-Iranian, Arabic-speaking callers. As very few
Iranians are likely to go to the British Industries fair, the Department of Overseas
Trade will probably not consider it worth while to produce a Persian edition of the
notices. In the absence of a Persian edition I think that the notices displayed
in this country should normally be in English or French. I have the honour to
enclose a copy of a despatch which I am addressing to His Majesty’s Consular
Officers in this country accordingly, together with a copy of a letter which is being
sent to Monsieur Mohsen Rais, now in charge of the Third Political Department.
3. I am sending copies of this despatch to the Department of Overseas Trade,
unnumbered, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs
Department No. 186 and to His Majesty’s Consular Representatives in Iran under
cover of my Circular Despatch No. 33.
Enclosure to Serial No. (84).
Letter from the British Legation, Tehran, No. 33, dated 20th October
1937.
I transmit to you herewith a copy of a despatch which I am addressing to the
Foreign Office regarding the display in this country of Arabic notices of the British
Industries Fair.
2. In all the circumstances I think it desirable that such notices should only be
displayed in English or French, except at those posts where it is reasonable to expect
a fair number of non-Iranian Arabic-speaking callers. This is likely to be the case
at Khorramshahr and possibly at Bushire, Bandar Abbas and Kermanshah, and
I think that if it has been usual to display notices in Arabic at these posts, the
practice should be continued. At other posts, subject to any instruction which
may subsequently be received from the Foreign Office, notices should only be shewn
in English or hrench. But if at any post other than the four enumerated above,
the number of non-Iranian, Arabic-speaking callers is large enough to justify the
display of Arabic notices, the fact should be reported to His Majesty’s Legation.
3. I am sending copies of this despatch to His Majesty’s Principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs under cover of my despatch No. 391, to the Secretary
to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department No. 186, and to.the
Department of Overseas Trade, unnumbered.
(85)
Telegram from Mr. Seymour (Tehran), No. 18-Saving, dated 15th October
1937.
Minister of Finance submitted yesterday to the Majlis for ratification one line
bill authorising him to pay out of the country’s available reserves a total sum of
218,875 pounds sterling as payments fall due for following undertakings.
1. £60,000 for iron foundry near here of which Shah laid foundation yesterday.
2. £79,046 for six railway engines.
3. £79,829 for construction of a slip-way at Bander.
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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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