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Coll 28/39(2) ‘Persia. Printed Correspondence, 1937–’ [129v] (258/320)
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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it is the police on whom the Shah primarily relies for observation of this
undercurrent. Secondly, since the police are thus enabled to .control both
the published and unpublished news which reaches the Shah, they probably
wish to impose their control at as early a stage as possible and thereby
increase their power and influence with the Shah. As pointed out in the ^
final paragraph of the memorandum enclosed in my despatch No. 305 under
reference, the police have in the past summarized the press and submitted
these summaries to the Shah; this censorship of all news by the police is,
however, a new development.
3. 1 am sending copies of this despatch to the Ministry of Information,
the Middle East Intelligence Centre and the Government of India.
(31)
No. 142.
To
The Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs
Department, New Delhi.
With the compliments
•pf
\His Majesty's Representative.
Tehran despatch No. 346 of 29th October, 1939.
British Legation,
Tehran,
29th October, 1939.
Enclosure to S. No. "(31).
Despatch from His Majesty’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office,
London, No. 346-(379/ll/39), dated the 29th October, 1939.
There is little of interest to report about the attitude of the Iranian
Government towards the war. From the Iranian point of view the policy
of Russia is for the moment the one thing that matters, and I feel reason
ably sure that the Soviet Government have not yet given any definite indica
tion of their intentions or whether their policy towards this country is to
be modified.
2. The Minister for Foreign Affairs in conversation yesterday asked
me whether 1 had any news I could give him about probable Russian moves
in Asia. I said that I had not and suggested that so far the Russians
seemed to be mainly concerned with re-establishing their influetice in the
European areas which had been Russian before 1918, and with strengthen
ing their position in respect of Germany. I added that I had noticed the
references to Russia in the Shah’s speech from the throne at the opening of
the Majliss [my telegram No. 166 of 28th October, S. No. (29)], and asked
what significance was to be attached to them. His Excellency replied that
the Irano-Soviet Commercial agreement had expired over a year ago, and
that the Shah had simply referred to it because the negotiations for a new
one had hung fire for so long. In referring to the various rumours of
Russian intentions which have circulated in Tehran he said that there
were no serious concentrations of Russian forces near the Iranian frontiers:)
there had been various troop movements, but these seemed to be mostly in
the nature of transfers of troops between European and Asiatic Russia.
3. There is no doubt that anxiety as to Russian intentions persists, and
naturally so. The Iranian Government fear that the longer the war lasts
the greater will be the opportunities for Russia to follow unchecked any
policy in regard to her weaker neighbours which may appeal to the Kremlin.
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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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