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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [105r] (209/749)
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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Greek Affairs.
18. Prince and Princess Peter of Greece arrived in Tehran on the
24th May for a short visit.
19. M. Dmitri Lambros, the Greek Charge d’Affaires, is leaving Tehran
shortly to take up an appointment as Propaganda Officer with the Greek Govern-
jnent in Cairo. He is being succeeded by M. Dziraf as charge d’affaires
jI interim.
20 . One hundred Greek nationals in Persia have been called up for service
with the Greek forces. This total represents every medically fit Greek of military
age in Persia. Only two or three were found to be medically unfit. Many of
these men had never seen Greece.
Tehran, 31^ May, 1943.
Appendix 1 .
Rent Restriction Law.
THE laws No. 7, regarding fixed prices, were established yesterday by the
Director-General of Finance in agreement with the Ministry of Justice as
follows :—
In view of the powers obtained in accordance with the law passed on the
4th May, 1943, it is laid down, in agreement with the Ministry of Justice, that—
( 1 ) The rent of houses or part of a house, as well as of all other immovable
property leased as at the 20th February, 1943, must not exceed the
amount of the rent at that date. If the property is not yet let, it
must not exceed the amount of the rent of properties of the same
category on the same date.
(2) Persons living in houses on the date of coming into force of the preceding
article, if they are not already liable to expulsion, will remain in
their domicile at the rent paid previous to the preparation of definite
regulations.
(3) If the rent of houses and property has been increased after the date of
the 20 th February, 1943. their rent after the 23rd May, 1943, will be
the same as that on the 20th February, 1943.
(4) These laws are provisional and will remain in force as long as the
regulations and alteration of rents have not been established.
A. S. MILLSPAUGH,
Director-General of Finance.
Appendix 2.
Third Regulation for Stabilisation of Prices.
THE third regulation issued by the Administrator-General of Finance of
the stabilisation of prices, dated for the 23rd May, 1943, read as follows
“ x n continuation of the powers vested in me as per law dated the 4th May
it is ordered that—
“ ( 1 ) The requirements of every foreign Power which should be insured by
local purchases, shall be determined, once every six months, by agree
ment concluded between the representative of the foreign Power
concerned or the civil or military foreign authorities, on the one part,
and the Administrator-General for the Stabilisation of Prices on the
other part, with the approval of the Administrator-General of
Finance.
“ ( 2 ) The Financial Agencies in the provinces and the heads of Revenue
Offices in the towns shall issue export permits for local purchases to
the civil or military foreign authorities within the quota announced
by the Department for the Stabilisation of Prices.
“ (a\ Application for local purchases should be written on special forms
supplied by the Department for the Stabilisation of Prices.
“ This regulation shall be enforced from the 6 th June, 1943."
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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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- 105r:105v, 111r:111v
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- Millspaugh, Arthur Chester
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