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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [166v] (332/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. 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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II.—Foreign relations (continued )—
(A) United Kingdom and India
(continued )—
(5) The Anglo-Iranian Oil Com
pany ... ... ... ... 104
(6) The Imperial Bank of Iran ... 107
(7) Claims ... ... ... ... Ill
(8) Complaints of British air
craft flying over Iranian terri
tory ... ... ... ... 114
(9) British subjects in difficulties 116
(10) Foreign exchange difficulties... 120
(11) Murder of Mr. E. A. Fear ... 126
(12) Doctors and mid wives ... 128
(18) Legation property ... ... 132
(14) Legation wireless ... ... 184
(15) Consular affairs ... ... 139
(16) British cultural propaganda... 145
(B) Canada ... ... ... ... 149
(C) Iraq—
(1) General ... ... ... ... 150
(2) Agreements ... ... ... 200
(D) Other countries—
(1) Turkey 201
(2) Afghanistan ... ... ... 204
(3) Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics ... ... ... 207
(4) Germanv ... ... ... 211
(5) Italy v 215
(6) France ... ... ... ... 218
(7) The United States ... ... 220
(8) Belgium ... ... ... 223
(9) The Netherlands ... ... 224
(10) Norway ... ... ... 225
(11) Sweden ... ... ... 226
(12) Switzerland ... ... ... 227
(13) Austria ... ... ... ... 228
(14) Roumania ... ... ... 229
(15) Greece ... ... ... ... 230
(16) Japan ... ... ... ... 231
(17) Egypt ... ... ... ... 232
(18) The Yemen ... ... ... 233
(E) International—
(1) League of Nations ... ... 234
(2) Middle-Eastern Pact of Non-
Aggression ... ... ... 238
(3) List of treaties ... ... 240
III.—Internal affairs (political)—
(A) General ... ... ... ... 241
(B) The Shah 249
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III. —Internal affairs (political) (con
tinued )—
(C) Officials—
(1) Cabinet ... ••• ••• 252
(2) Governors-General and Gover
nors ... ... ... ••• 256
(3) Diplomatic appointments
abroad ... ... 257
(D) Legislation ... 258
(E) Sheikh of Mohammerah ... 259
(F) Miscellaneous—
(1) Publicity ... ... ... 261
(2) Press ... ... ... ... 263
(3) Strike in the National
Teachers’ College ... ... 265
IV. —Military affairs—
(A) The army—
(1) General ... 267
(2) Expenditure ... ... ... 268
(3) Strength ... ... ... 269
(4) Organisation ... ... ... 270
(5) Armament ... ... ... 271
(6) Remounts ... ... ... 272
(7) Changes in the higher appoint
ments ... ... ... ... 273
(8) Conscription ... ... ... 274
(9) Manoeuvres ... ... ... 275
(10) Reviews and parades ... ... 278
(11) Military operations 279
(12) Military works... ... ... 281
(13) Foreign military missions ... 282
(14) Colleagues ... ... ... 285
(15) British officers—travellers ... 291
(B) The Iranian air force—
(1) Strength in machines... ... 292
(2) Location ... ... ... 294
(3) Casualties ... ... ... 295
(4) New orders ... ... ... 296
(5) Factories ... ... ... 297
(6) Landing grounds and aero
dromes ... ... 300
(7) Educational establishments ... 301
(8) Petrol storage tanks ... ... 302
(9) Photographic equipment ... 303
(10) Foreign air missions ... ... 304
(11) Reconnaissance flights ... 305
(12) Visits of Iranian air force
officers to Europe ... ... 306
(C) The Iranian navy... ... ... 307
(D) Gendarmerie ... ... ... 311
I.—Introduction.
DURING 1936 Iran continued to follow the path marked out during earlier
years by the Shah. Work on the railway, the most grandiose outward sign of
His Majesty’s policy of modernisation, continued steadily, and it is believed that
the line will be finished in advance of the due date. The erection of factories
and the policy of instituting monopoly companies in numerous branches of trade
were pressed forward. Public order remained good. But it cannot be said that
any improvement took place in the lot of the vast majority of the people.
Taxation remains very heavy, and it is too soon for the ambitious programme of
public works to produce any dividend in the form of an improved standard of
living.
2. During the year it became steadily more difficult for the Iranian Govern
ment to finance at the same time the railway, heavy importations of railway supplies
and the operations of the monopoly companies. The supply of foreign exchange,
which in March was subjected to the control of a Government Commission, became
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
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 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 321; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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