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Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [274r] (547/749)
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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0 Iran Insurance Company, the President of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce,
and the head of the Tehran Municipality shall be members as long as they retain
their posts.
Note.—Should the number of members fall to less than the twenty-five
mentioned in this article through resignation or other causes other persons
shall be elected on the proposal of the council, that proposal to be ratified
by the Cabinet.
^ 2 . The honorary president shall be the Prime Minister in person.
3. 1 he president and vice-president of the council shall be elected by absolute
majority of the members of the council.
4. Cabinet Ministers shall be allowed to attend the sittings and take part
in the discussions. Should circumstances demand, the council shall have the right
to call on any Minister for consultation and an exchange of views.
5. The members of the council shall be divided up into the necessary com
missions according to their special qualifications. These commissions shall study
the questions involved and shall report results to the council. These commissions
shall also have the right to call upon intelligent and informed persons who are
not members of the council or commissions to study special matters, or to form
special commissions from those persons.
6 . Internal statutes and regulations connected with the running of the
council shall be put into effect after ratification by the council.
7. Ministries and Government concerns shall be bound to put at the disposal
of the council any information which the council may require for its investigations.
8 . The Cabinet or individual Ministers shall have the right to ask for the
opinion of the council on matters affecting the national economy, before taking a
decision; in that case the council shall be bound to investigate the matter and
submit a comprehensive report for their information.
9. The fundamental duties of the council shall be to draw up an economic
programme on the following lines and % to submit it to the Government :—
(a) To stabilise prices.
(b) To investigate matters of money and prices.
(c) To encourage and increase agricultural and industrial products, and to
make full use of their products.
(d) To conduct a full and technical investigation into the country’s agri
cultural and irrigation, and to draw up profitable and practical plans
through technical experts.
(e) Matters connected with Government factories and lands.
(/) To encourage an increase of the population; to increase people’s capacity
for work and to educate the people in economic matters.
(g) To create order and equilibrium in the economic and financial affairs of
the country; to ensure a minimum standard of living; to make hygiene
universal and to create public works.
(h) To preserve good relations between workers and employers, landlords and
peasants, and to look after the rights of both parties with a view to
agricultural and industrial progress.
(i) To attract the necessary capital in order to make the maximum use of the
mines and water in Persia.
(j) To reform the general system of the country’s external and internal trade,
and to define the principles according to which foreign trade should
be conducted.
(k) To complete the internal and external means of communications policy;
(Z) To co-ordinate the economic actions of the Ministries, banks and other
Government concerns;
(m) To put into practice the principles of social insurance.
(n) To make provision for the return to normal immediately after the war of
the economic and financial situation.
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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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- 273v:274v
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- Government of Iran
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