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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [214v] (428/644)
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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Majesty’s Minister or by a member of the staff of His Majesty s Legation. The
direct contact between His Majesty’s Legation and His Majesty s consular
officers which these visits provide has proved of great value.
150. No progress whatever was made with the proposed redefinition of
British consular districts in Iran. At the end of the year the whole question
was thrown into the melting pot again by the reorganisation of the provinces
described in paragraph 248 below, which will make new definitions of all the
districts necessary. It will hardly be possible to attempt to frame new definitions
until the new organisation has crystallised.
(2) Australia.
151. Colonel C. E. Hughes was appointed during the year to be Australian
Trade Commissioner in a number of Near Eastern countries, including Iran, with
headquarters at Cairo. It had not been possible for Colonel Hughes to visit Iran
by the end of the year.
(B) Iraq.
Frontier Dispute and Negotiations for an Agreement.
152. In 1936 Irano-Iraqi relations had centred round the negotiations for
frontier settlement including the question of future control of the Shatt-el-
Arab; not much progress could be recorded. In 1937 the latter question was for
the greater part of the year left in abeyance, in accordance with the hints, if not
actual advice, of His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom and such
rapid progress was made with the frontier question that it was possible to foresee
early in the year that a treaty would be signed and the main lines of the agreement
that it would register. And in fact the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Dr. Naji-el-Asil, visited Tehran in July and signed the treaty determining the
frontier. It was only during Dr. Naji’s visit that His Majesty’s Legation took
any part in the negotiations, which apart from this period were conducted in
Bagdad.
153. As far, therefore, as the frontier problem was concerned, the belief
entertained in London in 1936 that without the good offices of His Majesty’s
Government negotiations would stagnate, was not justified. It was rather a
case of the Iraqi Government pushing matters too quickly. Nor, after what they
regarded as the rebuffs of the previous year, did the Iranian Government again
seek the help of His Majesty’s Government. Both parties, especially Iraq, turned
to the Turks for assistance. Early in the year the Iraqi and Iranian Governments
were already nearing an agreement on the following lines which by June were
embodied in an agreed treaty :—
(1) The land frontier should be as laid down in the Protocol of 1913, and in
the minutes of the Frontier Delimitation Commission of the following
year. The Persians thus abandoned their tiresome face-saving
demand that the frontier should be redelimited in the treaty from
north to south.
(2) Opposite Abadan the Iranian Government should receive from the Iraqi
Government an anchorage or strip of water some four miles in length,
from opposite jetty No. 1 in the north to near the north end of the
Island of Shutait in the south and extending over this stretch to the
thalweg of the river.
(3) The Shatt-el-Arab to be open to the mercantile marine of all nations,
shipping dues to be levied on the basis of the cost of upkeep and
administration of the river.
(4) The river to be free to the warships and other non-commercial vessels of
Iraq and Iran.
(5) The two contracting parties to negotiate subsequently an agreement
regarding the navigation and maintenance of the river, and various
other river questions, such as the prevention of smuggling. This
provision as regards the future was eventually embodied in a protocol
which formed an integral part of the treaty and was signed at the same
time.
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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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- Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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