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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [292v] (584/807)
The record is made up of 1 file (401 folios). It was created in 11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942. It was written in English. 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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4. British Interests.
(i) Lieutenant-Commander G. W. Manson, S.O. “ I,” Bahrein, visited
Tehran from the 19th March to the 30th March. Commander Manson, accom
panied by the British Military Attache (Lieutenant-Colonel H. J. Underwood),
carried out a reconnaissance of the ports of Bandar Pahlevi, Nau Shahr and
Babulsar.
(ii) The Ministry of Finance ask whether it would be permitted to use the
Italian steamship Hilda, now lying at Bandar Abbas with an Iranian crew, to
fetch wheat from India. .
(iii) A suggestion has been made to His Majesty’s Legation (possibly from
German sources) that the Germans might be willing to sell four of the ships at
present interned at Bandar Shahpur for 3 million reichsmarks each, payable in
marks or dollars. No encouragement was given to the enquirer.
5. Hungarian Interests.
The new Hungarian Minister, Dr. Bela de Szent-Istvany, presented his
letters of credence to H.I.M. the Shah on the 21st March. He did not send the
usual notification to the Polish, Belgian and Netherlands Ministers, as he did to
other colleagues, but some days later he wrote to the Belgian and the Netherlands
Ministers expressing his hope of entering into 'personal relations. He has taken
no notice of the Polish Minister.
6 . French Interests.
On the 1st April his Excellency M. Jean Helleu, the French Minister, left
Tehran on transfer to x\thens in the same capacity.
7. German Interests.
Early in March the German Legation invited all Germans in the provinces
to come to Tehran by the 28th March to attend a special congress of the Nazi
party in Iran and at the same time to witness the film \ ictory in the West at
one of the local cinemas. A detailed programme was arranged, including a
procession in uniform from the Brown House to the cinema, passing through
several of the main thoroughfares of Tehran.
Except for the procession, which was cancelled at the last moment, the
programme was carried out as laid down and without incidents. Besides the Axis
partners, Czechs, Bulgars, Roumanians, Yugoslavs were invited to see the film,
but few of these nationals attended. The total number of Germans of military
age who were present was about 600.
The demonstration as such was not a success, as the date coincided with the
news of the capture of Keren and the coup d Fiat in ^ ugoslavia.
8 . Italian Interests.
Reference Intelligence Summary No. 6 (current), paragraph 8 . The Iranian
Government eagerly await the fall of Assab, so that they may then try to secure
their goods. They state that the Italians now admit having requisitioned the
cargo of sugai. H j UNDERWOOD, L ieutenant-Colonel.
Military Attache.
Tehran, April 5, 1941.
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Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), 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. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover sheets and 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. notes sheets, the latter frequently containing handwritten notes giving a précis of the summary’s contents. The summaries cover a broad range of information, including: the activities of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Crown Prince, and other members of the royal family; activities of the Iranian Government and its officials; activities, organisation and strength of the Iranian army and Iranian air force; communications and transport, including wireless radio, and civil aviation routes into and out of Iran; British interests in Iran, including oil companies, specifically the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company; foreign interests in Iran; the Iranian press, focussing specifically on its criticism of foreign press and actions; commercial activities in Iran, including mining and factory An East India Company trading post. production; tribal matters, including those in the Bahmai and Baluchistan provinces, and the Qashqai; place name changes in Iran. Proceedings prior to and during the Second World War are also covered in the summaries. These include: German activity in Iran (commercial, political, propaganda, Nazi organisation); movements of peoples; public opinion in Iran in response to events in Europe in 1940; the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941; the abdication of Reza Shah Pahlavi; public opinion in Iran in the wake of the Anglo-Soviet invasion and occupation; social unrest and anti-British feeling.
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- 1 file (401 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 403; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, front-i, 2r:113v, 115r:123v, 125r:139r, 140r:143v, 145r:148v, 150r:197r, 198v:243r, 244r:309v, 311r:348r, 349r:403v, back
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