Coll 28/103 ‘Persia. Perso Russian Relations’ [77r] (153/190)
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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6. Zetland, in one of his last private letters dated the
1st May, expressed some uneasiness at the present attitude
of the Persian Government and expressed the hope that
Persia's adhscgnce" to the Saadabad Pact may act as a checv
on a drift bn Tier part into the Husso-German sphere of
influence, since if this were at all marked, it would
constitute a break in the solidarity of the Islamic
countries and would undoubtedly be regarded as something
of a diplomatic defeat for us. He asked me if we had any
information which would be of help in appreciating the
position. I have talked to my experts here. I do not in
the result think that we have any separate or corroborative
evidence, though we agree with Zetland that the position
disclosed in Tehran telegram s Nos. 102 and _11.Q of 28th April
ancT’Zhd”Iviay'Tb'The Foreign Office is disquieting, as
regards the immediate case of Russian pressure on Persia to
secure air facilities, while there is no further evidence
available to us in Persia itself, I am inclined to think
that an indication of the way things may be going is
afforded by recent Kabul reports. If you look at the
Kabul Intelligence Summary for the week ending 26th April ,
you will see that the Russians apparently always employ
(and for obvious reasons) different pilots on their
Tashkent-Kabul Service, and that they manage apparently to
flout Afghan control by arranging to clear their aeroplanes
before the Afghans can arrive on the aerodrome. This
suggests rather that they may be trying to establish some
sort of prescriptive claim to the use of the Kabul aerodrome
without submitting to supervision by Afghan ground staff ard
that without any Afghan protest they have apparently been
able to train a large number of pilots in the use of this
route. It looks rather, on such information as is available
(and I do not think that I have anything that matters her-
which is not available to you), that the Russians are
seeking to establish by pressure in Persia what they are
getting by stealth in Afghanistan.
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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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- Hope, Victor Alexander John, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
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