Coll 28/103 ‘Persia. Perso Russian Relations’ [46r] (91/190)
The record is made up of 1 file (92 folios). It was created in 19 Apr 1940-16 Aug 1946. 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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TNC/593A4.
Subject: Condeninbtions
of British Publications.
Anglo-Soviet-Persian Censorship,
(British Section),
Office of Joint Jirector,
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1. ThaiLv you for yourMtt£/0^/4Uv-af>-;^8th June giving additional
points for discussion vith the- Soviet Joint Director Colonel
Asadurov on this subject.
2. Following a complaint by a British resident (Dr. II. Muster
of the Imperial Banxv of Iran - already known to you as a critic
of Censorship) alleging that Censorship had extracted two books
from a parcel, I interviewed Colonel Asadurov on June.27th and
after a re-examination of the books in question which the Soviet
Section had condemned, they were released.
3 . At the same interview I informed the Colonel of the various
irregularities detailed in Tl\ f C/562/44 of 26th June and which I
attributed to his sorters:- I mentioned that a report had been
sent to you. He gave prompt instructions' to his Sorting Section
to improve matters.
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4 . He considered the request was reasonable that British
publications exported under Censorship Permits to British Companies
ana Residents in Persia should invariably be released^ and is
passing this on to Moscow. He is also referring to Moscow the
question of the disposal of condemned publications; he
favours the return to sender through the British Section of any
publications condemned by the‘Soviet Section.
5 . The Russians base their justification for. the destruction
of items they condemn on a Russian text dated l?th February,
1942, headed "Regulations regarding procedure for dealing with
correspondence by the Joint Soviet-Anglo- ‘ersian Censorship".
A translation of the relevant Section is:- "Confiscated letters
will be kept for one month and will then be destroyed after the
completion of a record by the Section\which first confiscated
them".
The Russian word used for "letters" cannot apply to any
other type of postal article, but as the regulations seem to
be for the internal use of th.e Soviet Section they can presumably
interpret them as they like In disposing of items they condemn -
since the-section condemning an article has it for disposal.
I do not therefore see how we can insist on the Soviet Section
observing-Sectioh lol (i) of British Censorship Regulations 1938
in the absence of any previous joint agreement concerning the
custody and disposal of condemned articles.
6. The Soviet Joint Director argued that the publications
he condemned would be allowed w into Russia and thac the Soviet #
objection to them in Persia was purely a local one based on the
effect they would have on the minus of Persian readers.
Consequently if_they were not destroyed he preferred them # to
be returned to senders through the British Section rather than
be kept for delivery to the addressees after the Mar as the
latter way would merely be delaying the ill ei 1 eo'f complained
about.
?. If my contention in the last section of paragraph ( 5 )
above is correct it would be better for British publishers to have
their parcels returned to them as ‘in a-number of cases they consign.
» books ta the Imperial Bank for delivery to Persian clients against
payment of the value. It is unlikely that the P rsianswpula nay
If the goods are' detained till after the Jar ana a lots would* 0 ^
incurred by the British publisher&.
he Director, - ' 8./
Censorship,
10, Sharia , Tolumbat, Cairo*
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Correspondence and papers, some marked Most Secret, concerning relations between the Soviet Union and Persia [Iran]. Much of the file concerns the British Government’s concerns about Soviet interference and influence in Persia, particularly at the end and in the aftermath of the Second World War. The file covers: relations between Persia, the Soviet Union and Germany, 1940; the Persian Government’s desire to replace British personnel working in its aviation operations with personnel from the USA, and the proposed use of Persian aerodromes by the Soviet Government, 1940; reports of German infiltration in Persia, 1941; British concerns about an increase in Soviet propaganda in Iran, 1943; the activities of the Anglo-Soviet-Persian Censorship office, 1944; reports that the Soviet Consulate in Ahwaz [Ahvāz] wished to open a ‘propaganda shop’ at Abadan, 1945; notes about the Soviet Union and North Persia, written by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard (ff 18-22, ff 3-4).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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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 94; 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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