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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [99v] (198/320)
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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2 . As regards purchases of arms from Czechoslovakia, I understand that
fifty batteries of 105 mm. Skoda guns (four guns to each battery) were ordered
in 1937. Thirty-eight batteries have been delivered so far, and the remain
der are expected before the end of the year. I am informed that the Iranian
military authorities are purchasing Hungarian draught horses to equip these
batteries.
3. In the third and fourth paragraphs of his despatch Sir Maurice
Peterson mentions an incident on the boundary between the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and Iran. I received a report of rumours of such an
incident from the acting British consul at Tabriz in March last, but at the
time it proved impossible to confirm them. At the time it appeared that such
an incident, if it had occurred, was probably connected with the recent ex
pulsions of Iranian subjects from Soviet territory, on which I had the honour
to report to your Lordship in my despatch No. 221 of the 14th June. There
have subsequently been reports, which again I have been unable so far to
confirm, of an increase in Russian fortifications on this border.
4. As regards, in particular, paragraph 4 of Sir Maurice Peterson’s
despatch, it should be noted that the 4th Division of the Iranian army (the
Eastern Azerbaijan Division) is permanently stationed in that locality ; the
2 nd Division is in Tehran, and has not moved.
5. Taufiq Sirwaidi mentioned to His Majesty’s Ambassador that, accord
ing to his information, the Soviet Government disliked the Saadabad Pact.
In conversation with me a few days ago, the counsellor to the Soviet
Embassy maintained, however, as he did last year, that his Government re
garded the pact as involving some measure of “ assainissement ” in the Middle
East, and therefore as something on the whole to be welcomed.
6 . It is correct that General Gendre, of the French Military Mission, who
has temporarily been appointed adviser on frontier defences, has recently
visited the frontier, as Taufiq Suwaidi said (please see the last sentence of
paragraph 5 in Sir M. Peterson’s despatch). General Gendre has made a
tour of all Iran’s frontiers, including that with India in Baluchistan ; he gave
me to understand that the Azerbaijan visit was more or less of a routine na
ture, enquiring laughingly whether war was expected there.
7. Mr. MacDougall, adviser to the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, was
recently here on leave ; he left to visit Tabriz, where he was to stay with His
Majesty’s consul. His intention was to proceed to Tiflis, for which journey
he obtained a visa from the Soviet Embassy here. On his return to Bagdad
he will no doubt bo able to give the Iraqi Government his first-hand impres
sions of the situation in that locality.
8 . I am sending a copy of this despatch to His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Bagdad, No. 39.
(74-A)
[Enclosure in Air Mail letter No. 46, dated 11 th November 1938, from
Secretary, Political and Secret Department,
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.
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Letter from Foreign Office, to His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran,
No. E 5066/3141/34, dated the 4th November 1938.
Hedlicott of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company spoke to Baggallay the other
day about the forthcoming wedding of the Crown Prince which was to take
place, according to his information, some time in April of next year. He
suggested that it would be a great pity if the accounts of the wedding which
reached the press of this country were of a kind which cast ridicule on the pro
ceedings, or dealt with them in a sensational manner. He asked accordingly
whether it would be possible to say anything to the Persian Government by
way ot a warning that they should take great care in giving permits to British
journalists to come to Persia to report on the wedding. It would be quite
all nght he said, if representatives of papers like the “ Times ” and the
aily Telegraph w^ere invited ; but if all sorts of sensational newspapers
or magazines also sent representatives, the results might be quite different,.
e ad, he said, already heard of two or three journalists who had received
invitations—I presume from the Persian Legation here.
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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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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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- 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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