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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [32r] (63/749)
The record is made up of 1 file (373 folios). It was created in 9 Jul 1942-8 Feb 1946. 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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DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
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epiember 14, 1942.
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Copy No.
Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received ^September 14.)
(No. 291.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 35, 26th August to 1st September,
1942, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
114
Tehran, September 1, 1942.
Enclosure.
(No. 42/35. Secret.)
Military Attache's Intelligence Summary No. 35 for the Period August 26 to
September 1, 1942.
Political.
Persian A ff airs.
, THE Government has agreed to the demand made by His Majesty’s Minister
(see S ummary No. 34/4 2. paragraph 2) that the Persian subjects already arrested
by the Persian authorities on suspicion of being engaged in anti-Ally or pro-Axis
activities should be handed over for interrogation to the custody of British
military authorities at Sultanabad. Public agitation about this matter has been
suppressed.
2. The Government has issued a proclamation whidh, while calling on the
nation to close its ranks in this time of crisis, gives a plain warning to the press
and others that activities likely to interfere with the functioning of the machinery
of Government or to lead to disorder will be severely repressed in lehran by the
strict application of martial law. At the same time the police have distributed
leaflets reminding the public of certain articles of the Code of Martial Law'
relating to subversive activities against the Constitution or the policy of the
established Government and particularly to the law which allows of persons
suspected of such activities being detained, even though their guilt has not been
proved. . .
3. Simultaneous with this proclamation there was a complete cessation or
the press agitation against the arrest and detention of those suspected of pro-Axis
5^.0^ activities (see Summa ry No. 34/42, para graph 2). It seems that the Government,
having realised that tnis popular claTliour was not only unlikely to be effective
in persuading I^is Majesty’s Minister to withdraw his demand for their
surrender, but /whi’cfN was producing a situation which made their surrender more
difficult for the Government, decided to find justification in existing laws for the
detention without trial of the suspects.
4. It now seems probable that the Prime Minister will himself accept the
portfolio of the Ministry for War. Certain regulations have been drawn up to
govern the relations between the Chief of the General Staff and the Minister for
War, which are likely to be acceptable to both parties. Orders by the Chief of
the General Staff regarding organisation, training operations and promotions
must be approved and countersigned by the Minister for War before being sub
mitted to the Shah. In the event of disagreement, the matter will be referred to
the Shah, who will decide whether to over-rule the Chief of the General Staff or
accept the resignation of the Minister for War.
Economic.
5. The new Minister of Finance has relieved a number of the more
notoriously dishonest senior #fficials of the Finance Department of their appoint-
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Copies of intelligence summaries prepared on a weekly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran, and received by the 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. via the Foreign Office. The file’s contents follow on chronologically from Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3503). The summaries cover a broad range of information relating to wartime conditions in Iran: the activities of the Iranian government, including political instabilities, the resignation and appointment of governments and government ministers; the financial situation in Iran, including the reappointment in 1942 and subsequent economic policies of Arthur Chester Millspaugh, who was recruited to organise the government’s finances; internal security in Iran, including increasing political unrest in the north of the country (specifically in Azerbaijan) brought about by a growing Soviet presence, wartime propaganda, and the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran; concerns over wheat production and supply, including reports of food shortages and famine conditions in 1942/43; the Iran military, including its movements, activities and appointments; foreign interests (primarily USA, British, and Soviet); reports of the numbers of Polish refugees in camps in Tehran, Isfahan and Ahwaz [Ahvāz].
The file contains a single item in French, being a copy of the declaration of the Congrès National d’Azerbaidjan (Nation Congress of Azerbaijan, f 359).
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- 1 file (373 folios)
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The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the front to the rear of the file.
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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 375; 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.
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- front, front-i, 2r:52v, 54r:104v, 106r:110v, 112r:192r, 193r:241v, 242v:261v, 262v:273r, 275r:339v, 341r:358v, 360r:360v, 362r:363r, 365r:369v, 370v:371r, 372v:374v, back
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