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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [147r] (293/749)
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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November 29, 1943.
Section 1.
[E 7465/110/34] Copy No .
Sr/ R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—[Received 29^// November. 1943.)
(No. 455.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Jrimcipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit
hereAvith a copy of Intelligence Summary, No. 46, for the period the 9 th to
loth November, 1943, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, l§th November, 1943.
Enclosure.
Military A ttache’s Intelligence Summary, No. 46, for the period §th to
15th November, 1943.
(Secret.) Persian Affairs.
Political.
1 . I he Prime Minister’s position grows weaker and there are many who
prophesy that he cannot last much longer. He has lost the sympathy of the
capitalists for allowing Dr. Millspaugh’s Income Tax Bill to become law, of those
ex-Deputies who have not been re-elected for allowing the new elections to be held
and of the general public for failure to set Persia’s house in order. There are
rumours of Cabinet changes.
2 . Seiyid Zia-ud-din, after forty days in Persia, states that he has made
headway and gained many new adherents. To the neutral observer, however, the
Russian refusal to have anything to do with him, his incompetent associates
(with the exception of Zarin Kafsh and Ibtehaj) and his failure to produce a
practical programme of reform, belie his statement.
3. Dr. Millspaugh’s Income Tax Bill was passed by the Majlis on the
12th November and his mission have, therefore, withdrawn their resignations
i Dr. Millspaugh pays tribute to the well-timed intervention of His Imperial
Majesty The Shah, who interviewed certain Majlis Deputies and warned them of ^
the evil consequences for Persia of further delay.
Economic.
4. The British army has come to the rescue of the Persian Road Transport
Board and is to move 10,000 tons of grain during December and January from
Kermanshah to Hamadan, Sultanabad (Arak) and Tehran.
Persian Forces.
5. Reference paragraph 6 of Summary No. 45/43, General Ridley, the
American adviser to the Persian Ministry of War, has submitted a memorandum
to the Shah pointing out that there is no necessity for a military secretariat on
the Belgian or any other model and that the functions of the Shah’s military
secretary should be limited to ceremonial.
Kurdistan.
Internal Security.
6 . In Sennah the situation is generally quiet. In Southern Kurdistan it
is expected that the situation will improve owing to the detention under sur
veillance in Kermanshah of two prominent Quran chieftains who are believed
to have had dealings with Naubakht, the pro-Axis politician. f
[48—21]
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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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- Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’
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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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