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Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’ [47r] (93/313)
The record is made up of 1 file (154 folios). It was created in 14 Aug 1935-16 Apr 1936. 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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that steps should be taken after consultation with our
consular authorities in Iran to negotiate an arrangement
of this kind through H.M. Legation at Tehran, and
(c) it should be made plain to Mons. Kazemi that, if
the present attempts of the local Iranian authorities at
Zahidan to force Indian drivers and Indian owned lorries
not only off the Persian roads, but also off the Indian
road as far as Nok Kundi continued, we on our side should
be compelled to adopt more stringent measures, such as
refusing visas altogether to Iranian Lorry Drivers to
proceed beyond Mirjava. We fully realise that this would
be met with reciprocal action and that Indian drivers
would not then be allowed to proceed beyond Mirjava in the
direction of Zahidan. But this we were prepared to face,
since it would at any rate secure for Indian drivers a
monopoly of the Indian stretch of the road. Such an
arrangement would however cause great dislocation of traffic
and inconvenience to the public and we were therefore very
loath to impose such restrictions, if the Iranians on their
part were disposed to be reasonable and to agree to an
arrangement such as is suggested above.
2. The question was also briefly discussed whether
restrictions of this kind would be effective for preventing
Iranian owned lorries driven by Indian drivers from plying
on the Indian side of the Frontier. Mr. Caroe explained that
there were considerable legal difficulties about this and
that it was best at present not to raise the question. It
may be hoped that a withdrawal of visas for Iranian drivers
would, if it had to be adopted, induce a more reasonable
frame of mind and render further action against Iranian owned
lorries unnecessary.
(Signed) H.Metcalfe.
2.11.35.
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Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper cuttings relating to an official visit made by the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bagher Kazemi, to Kabul, Afghanistan, and New Delhi, India. The file’s principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Aside from general commercial matters, specific subjects discussed by Kazemi and Government of India officials, as recorded in memoranda and notes in the file, include: the Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; the status of the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, Iran, and questions over its transfer to Bahrain; the demarcation of the Iran-Baluchistan frontier; the employment of officers of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India at consular posts in Iran; lorry traffic on the Nok Kundi to Zahidan [Zahedan] road. The file also contains a sequence of newspaper articles dated 2-27 February 1936, appearing in the French-language newspaper Le Journal de Teheran , and reporting at length on Kazemi’s visit (ff 6-28).
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- 1 file (154 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front 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 155; 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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- Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 29r:53v, 57r:58v, 61r:118r, 118ar, 118v:119v, 121r:143r, 143ar, 143v:155v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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