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Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’ [369r] (737/807)
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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Section 1.
Copy No. 9 7
(No. 75.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the hondur to transmit
herewith a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 10 for period the 4th to 10th March,
1942, compiled by the military attache to this legation. LqXsjjlo oJL*+ ^
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Enclosure.
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Military Attaches Intelligence Summary No. 10 for the Period iwl 9 rjrurr * 1 *
March 4—10, 1942. |
Persian Affairs.
1. The Cabinet (see Summary No. 9/42).
THE crisis continued till the 9th March. One cannot help feeling that the
public, or at least tihe Deputies, have rather enjoyed it and are proud of having
had such a “ grown-up malady. For some days Feroughi tried to form a Cabinet
and then refused to try further, since nothing that he could produce was acceptable
to the Majlis. The press has, in the main, supported him and lays the blame on
the Deputies for objecting to his Cabinet nominees without stating their reasons
or producing other suggestions, i.e., adopting an attitude of purely destructive
criticism. They have beejn held up as obstructionists and place seekers. Both
these accusations are partly true, but much of their ceaseless speech-making was
due to a determination to have their say and to exercise that right of free speech
so long denied to them under the late regime. Summoned but seldom by Reza Shah,
and then only to accord a submissive affirmative, they must, naturally, take a
new-found delight in exercising an organ almost atrophied by disuse. A novel
method of Cabinet-making was tried on the 6th March, when^ fourteen Deputies
were chosen by lot to advise Feroughi as to the composition of his Cabinet.
Feroughi, disappointed with the lack of support and the continued criticism (not
of him, but of his nominees), is said to have refused to discuss his Cabinet with
Deputies chosen by such means, and finally resigned. Ali Soheily was then sent
for by the Shah and was entrusted with the task of forming "a Government.
Ali Soheily, at a private session of the Majlis, received a majority of 100 to 2 on
a vote of his selection as Prime Minister.
He announced his Cabinet at a public session on the 9th March. They are
as follows : —
Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Home Minister • Ali
Soheily (203) (283).
Minister of War : Sarlashgar Amanullah Mirza Jehanbani (100) (132).
Minister of Finance : Mahmud Badr (41) (51).
Minister of Education : Mustafa Adi (1) (1).
Minister of Roads and Communications : Yadullah Azudi (39) (49).
Minister of Justice : Abdul Majid Ahi (5) (7).
Minister of Health : Ali Asghar Hikmat (85) (111).
Minister of Commerce and Industry: Abdul Hussein Najir (80) (104).
Minister of Agriculture: Ahmad* Hussein Adi (a former Director-
General of Agriculture, lately in business, an Azerbaijani educated
partly in France, cousin to Mustafa Adi).
Minister of Posts and Telegraphs : Fazullah Bahrami (47) (nil)
[28—1] ' RECd. POL. DrpTT
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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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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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