Memoir of the Career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow [6r] (11/26)
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quite a bit and polished up my Persian (see above).
In the spring (1944?) was posted to Bandar Abbas as Consul
Bandar Abbas Here I was on my own with a great deal to do. I travelled
extensively in Lorimer's footsteps. Accompanied R.N. ships on their trips
along the coast, ran a coastal network of Persians watching for enemy (German
or Jap) submarines. Under the F & P Consular duties were a far cry from the
same in the F.O. One meddled in local politics, ordered the local governor
about, told the military what to do etc. Yet the local Persian did not seem
to resent it, whatever their politicians in Tehran may have felt, and relations
were close and cordial.
I spent 4 months as Consul in Kerman as a stop gap leaving Bandar Abbas vacant
and finally left Perwa in 1946, for 4 months home leave - my first since arriving
in Bombay in 1938.
I had in all this period both in the I.C.S. and F & P never had more than
4 weeks local leave in any one year. I travelled from Bandar Abbas overland
via Kerman Quetta to Bombay, then to the UK in an overcrowded troopship. My
wife shared a cabin with 3 other women, I was luckier in having only one stable
companion. Looking back conditions were appalling. It was the hot weather
and the ship a Cunarder had been built for the North Atlantic ocean. Yet
how happy one was to be returning home to the wettest and coldest June, July
and August (1946) in memory.
Delhi Returned to India in Sept 1946 as an Under/Secretary in the Foreign
Dept, of the F & P. Headquarters staff had been greatly increased (I think
there were 4 under/secs) and our task was to turn the old Dept into a replica
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This file consists of a memoir of the career of Sir Reginald Michael Hadow, which records the following: Hadow's motivation; his education and entry into the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and later the Indian Political Service The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. ( IPS The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47. ); his experiences in Russia in 1942, as well as Meshed [Mashhad], Bahrain, Bushire [Būshehr], Bandar Abbas, and Delhi; his response to Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India following independence) declining his application to join the new Indian Foreign Service.
There are two copies of the memoir, the first one has corrections in blue pen, and the second has changes made to the first draft.
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