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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [183r] (365/644)
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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166. His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad expressed similar suspicion as
to M. Kazemi’s suggestion. Were His Majesty's Government in the United
Kingdom to fall in with it he feared that M. Kazemi would show it to the Iraqi
Government and thereby destroy the latter’s confidence in His Majesty s Govern
ment. Sir Archibald Clark-Kerr considered as fantastic the long list of subjects,
some of them controversial, on which M. Kazemi wished agreement to be reached
before the end of March, and he reported the Iraqi Prime Minister as holding the
strong view that the frontier dispute must be settled in advance of all others.
167. His Majesty’s Minister replied to M. Kazemi's offer in accordance
with his instructions in a private letter dated the 20th January. On the same
day M. Kazemi told the Turkish Ambassador that he was awaiting a definite
approach from the Iraqi Government on the subject of the Tripartite River
Convention; and on the 20th January also His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad
telegraphed that the Iraqi Prime Minister had told him that he thought
M. Kazemi’s proposals, received in substantially the same form from the Iraqi
Minister in Tehran, marked considerable progress. Yasin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
proposed to
invite the Iranian Government to agree to full British participation in the River
Convention, but only after he and the Minister for Foreign Affairs had
discussed the scope of the powers to be given to the board.
168. Until the 20th January therefore there had been considerable activity
on the party of His Majesty’s representatives in Bagdad and Tehran. On the
following day, the 21st January, His Majesty’s Government in the United King
dom sent important instructions to both capitals. From recent telegrams from
these two posts the conclusion was drawn that there was little or no prospect of a
speedy conclusion of any Shatt-el-Arab agreement on lines resembling even
remotely the draft British convention. His Majesty’s Government no doubt felt
that neither the Iraqi nor the Iranian Government had really thought out or faced
the difficulties that the document was designed to overcome. The course therefore
recommended to His Majesty’s representatives was to abstain from discussing
various alternative expedients, at any rate until the position was clearer or
serious proposals had been worked out by the two parties in detail. His
Majesty’s Minister in Tehran replied expressing the hope that Sir Archibald
Clark Kerr was still authorised to communicate the Iranian Government’s
desiderata if the latter desired it; and that steps should still be taken to promote
a definite confirmation of acceptance in principle both of the Tripartite
Conservancy Board and of an anchorage for Iran at Abadan, in order to set
negotiations in motion. Two further telegrams were received from the Foreign
Office restating the policy indicated in the telegram of the 21st January, but
saying that this did not debar the proposed communication of the Iranian
Government’s desiderata to the Iraqi Government by Flis Majesty’s Ambassador
at Bagdad if the Iranian Government desired it. The latter did not in fact
pursue this point. No direct answer was sent to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen’s
other suggestion, and at no time during the year did the Iraqi Govemment bring
themselves to propose to the Iranian Government in writing full British participa
tion in a Conservancy Convention.
169. A few days later copies reached Bagdad and Tehran of a memorandum
of instructions for the guidance of His Majesty’s Ambassador in negotiating a
Conservancy Convention. These emphasised as essential that both the convention
and the commission or board that it set up must be tripartite, excluding all
nationalities other than Iraqi, Iranian and British, and that the United Kingdom
must be in all respects on precisely the same footing as the other two countries.
170. British good offices between the two Governments remained, in fact,
largely in abeyance for the rest of the year. The Iranian Ministry for Foreign
Affairs made two further bids for the assistance of His Majesty’s Government
in the United Kingdom. On the 5th February M. Kazemi sent the British Charge
d’Affaires a letter modifying his original “ Base d’Accord ” by reducing the large
number of agreements to be concluded within a specified date down to the two or
three treaties which were of the greatest urgency and which were to be regarded as
the basis of agreement, while the remainder should be postponed to a subsequent
time in the near future. M. Kazemi explained, in conversation, that the frontier
and Shatt-el-Arab settlements and the treaty of friendship were the urgent
questions, and he thought that these could be concluded before the May meeting of
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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.
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- 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.
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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 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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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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