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13. Ext 5000/41(11) 'Persian Situation. Miscellaneous Reports'
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- Abstract: This file consists of miscellaneous reports regarding internal affairs in Persia (later referred to more frequently as Iran). Most of the correspondence is between His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard) and officials of the Foreign Office.Other prominent correspondents include the following: His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires in Tehran (Daniel William Lascelles; Herbert Reginald Dauphin Gybbon-Monypenny); His Majesty's Consul, Isfahan; His Majesty's Consul General, Tabriz (Thomas Cecil Rapp); His Majesty's Ambassador in Washington (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, referred to in the correspondence as Viscount Halifax, and later, as Earl of Halifax); His Majesty's Ambassador in Moscow (Archibald Clark Kerr); officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office.The correspondence includes discussion of the following:Political affairs in Persia, including elections, resignations, and the reconstruction of the Cabinet.Reports of the theft of telephone cables used by the British military in Persia.The Shah's [Muhammad Reza Khan] personal finances.Reports of Russian interference in Persian elections.The procedural and administrative arrangements of the Persian National Consultative Assembly (mainly referred to in the correspondence as the Majlis; the file also includes a list of the deputies of the 14th Majlis, with biographical notes).The tenability of the position of Dr Arthur Chester Millspaugh, United States financial adviser to the Persian Government and head of the Millspaugh mission.Anti-British opinion in the Iranian press.Details of the main political parties in Persia (particular coverage is given to the Tudeh party).Radio broadcasts in Persia, and the proposal from His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran that the British should begin producing regular radio reports in Persian, which should be broadcast by the BBC in London.The question of whether the British should agree to the release of Persian internees described as 'fifth columnists'.The case for abandoning political censorship (as a response to Soviet censorship in press telegrams).The French language material consists of extracts and cuttings from two French language Iranian publications, Journal de Tehranand Messager de Téhéran; the Farsi language material consists of a copy of an aide-memoire by His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran, which is dated 25 January 1945 and appears in English and Farsi.The file includes five dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 573; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
14. Ext 4599/45 'Persia - Payments to Church Missionary Society, Kerman (medical work)'
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence between the Foreign Office and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf regarding the continuation and increase of monthly payments to the Church Missionary Society, Kerman during and after the Second World War.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 8; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
15. Letters from Harford Jones to John Malcolm
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- Abstract: Copies of four letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], sent from Bagdad and dated 20 November-30 December 1800.The correspondence mainly concerns Jones's attempts to procure finance for Malcolm's mission in Persia, including a consignment of specie sent by Jones via Aga Mohammed Salah [Āghā Muḥammad Sāliḥ], a merchant in Cazvene [Qazvin]. The correspondence also covers developments in the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the dispatch of cossids [messengers] from Bagdad to Persia, and plague in the region.Also attached is an invoice for the specie sent by Jones to Cazvene.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
16. PZ 7674/35 Iraq: disposal of the balance of a donation given by Raja Mohamed Khushalbai for provision of an electric light system at Kerbala
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- Abstract: The file concerns the disposal of a sum held on deposit at Bagdad Consulate in respect of the unexpended balance of money given by Raja Mohamed Khushalbai of Ahmedabad (Bombay Presidency) for the provision of an electric light system at shrines in Kerbala [Karbalā']. It consists of correspondence and a memorandum.The main correspondents are: the three sons of Raja Mohammed Khushalbai - Gulamali Rajemahomed Panjetani, Gulammohomed Rajemahomed Panjetani, and Gulamabbas Rajemahomed Panjetani; the British Consul, Bagdad [Baghdad]; the Collector of Ahmedabad; the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department; the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Political and Reforms Department; the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; the Under Secretary of State for India; and the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.The file contains multiple spellings for the persons mentioned as follows:Raja Mohamed Khushalbai (Raja Mohammed Khushalbai, Rajemuhammad Khushalbhai, Rajemohamed Khushalbhai, Rajemahomed Khushalbhai, Raja Mahamad Khushalbhai, Raja Mohamed Khushalbhai);Gulamali Rajemahomed Panjetani (Gulamali Rajemahomed, Gulamali Rajemuhammad);Gulammohomed Rajemahomed Panjetani (Gulammahomed Rajemahomed, Gulam Muhammad Rajemuhammad);Gulamabbas Rajemahomed Panjetani (Gulamabbas Rajemahomed, Gulam Abbas R. Panjetani, Ghulam Ali Rajamohammed Panjetani, Gulamabbas Rajemohomed Panjetani, Gulamabbas Rajemohamed Panjetani, Gulam Abbas Rajemuhammad).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 1, and terminates at f 35, it is the fifth file in a larger physical volume, each file has its own foliation sequence; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-35; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
17. Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction'
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- Abstract: The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and Commonwealth governments; and a register of papers received or sent by the CRO relating to the Committee, with internal CRO correspondence (at the back of the file).The file includes agendas for meetings of the Committee, and minutes of the meetings on 28 April, 5 May, 5 July and 19 July 1949. Matters discussed and recorded in the minutes include: the reconstitution of the Committee; the re-settlement of Arab refugees from Palestine; the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East by the Working Party of the Committee; the future work of the Committee; the Conference of HM Representatives in the Middle East to be held in London from 26 to 29 July 1949; United States President Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ (Truman’s message of 24 June 1949 to the United States House of Representatives, communicating a ‘Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation to Authorise an Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas of the World’); and further studies of the Working Party.The file also includes the following papers prepared by (or approved by) the Working Party of the Committee: draft, revised and interim versions of the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East; papers relating to the economic and social development of Iraq, Syria, Greater Transjordan, Egypt, the Lebannon, Saudi Arabia, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Eritrea and Somalia, and the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; and a paper on Middle East oil.In addition, the file includes other papers relating to matters discussed at the meetings, and the following subjects: Transjordan; irrigation development in Iraq; Persia’s [Iran’s] Seven Year Plan for development; informal conversations on social and economic affairs in the Middle East between representatives of the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the British Embassy in Washington, and the United States State Department; the work of the Development Division of British Middle East Office; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic development in Cyprus in relation to the Middle East.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 468; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
18. Coll 6/11 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Economic Development in the Hejaz'
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- Abstract: This file mostly consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) or His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, Albert Spencer Calvert, and Alan Charles Trott), relates to the economic development of the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). Other correspondents include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle) and officials of the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.The opinion expressed by British correspondents near the beginning of the file is that the unsatisfactory state of the country's finances is a result of its complete dependence on the pilgrimage for income. Much of the file is concerned with various projects (such as water and mineral surveys) sanctioned by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in order to explore other sources of revenue.Items of discussion include the following:News that Ibn Saud intends to establish a power station for the purpose of providing Mecca and Jedda with electricity.Ibn Saud's wish to establish a state bank, preferably a British bank, to improve the financial situation in the country.Four reports on the country's water and mineral resources, produced by American engineer and geologist Karl Saben Twitchell in 1932 (copies of three of the four reports are included).The British Minister at Jedda's thoughts on how the economic unification of the newly-formed Saudi Arabia will progress.Proposed improvements to Jedda's water supply.The establishment of an 'Arabian Steam Navigation Company' by the Saudi Government.Details of the Saudi Arabian Mining Syndicate's concession with the Saudi Government for the exploitation of gold and other minerals, which was negotiated by Twitchell, signed in December 1934, and ratified by Ibn Saud in February 1935.Reports of anti-Ibn Saud propaganda in the Indian Muslim press.Details of the Saudi Arabian Mining Syndicate's activities in Saudi Arabia.The history of the Ahrar movement in India, its political party, Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam, and its reported condemnation of the recent Saudi mining concession.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.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 251; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-251; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
19. Coll 17/40 'Iraq. Basra Consulate-General Monthly Summaries'
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- Abstract: The file consists of copies of monthly summaries from the British Consulate-General at Basra, for March, April, and May 1947, which were sent to the India Office by the Foreign Office.The summaries cover the following: the political and tribal situation in Basra; labour; the press; personalities who had visited Basra; finance, oil, commerce and industry; communications; naval and military matters; and foreign activities.The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 14; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-13; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
20. Coll 6/10 'Hejaz-Nejd Affairs: Financial Situation and Internal Situation'
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- Abstract: This volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) or His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), relates to financial and political matters in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia).The correspondence discusses the following:The history of the Wahabi movement and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] attitude towards Wahabism.The currency exchange crisis in the Hejaz.Requests from Ibn Saud for the British Government either to assist in establishing a British bank as a state bank in the Hejaz, or to provide a loan directly to the Hejazi Government (both requests are declined).The British Minister at Jedda's accounts of his meetings both with Ibn Saud and with various Hejazi/Saudi Government officials.A Hejazi-Soviet contract for the supply of Soviet benzine and relations between Soviet Russia and Hejaz-Nejd generally.Tensions within the Hejazi Government.The Hejazi Government's budgetary reforms.The prospect of a new Saudi state bank, possibly backed by the financial assistance of the former ex-Khedive of Egypt [ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II].The death of Emir Abdullah ibn Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa‘ūd].Saudi-Egyptian relations.The discovery of oil in Hasa.In addition to correspondence the volume includes the following:A copy of an economic survey of Saudi Arabia, produced by the British Legation at Jedda in June 1936.A copy of a note written by Frederick Gerard Peake, Commanding Officer of the Arab Legion, on the history of the Wahabi movement.A copy of a printed Government of India report entitled 'Confidential Report of the Haj Inquiry Committee on the Arrangements in the Hedjaz', dated 1930.A copy of a report by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe), recounting a visit to Ibn Saud at Hasa in early 1932.Copies of extracts from Kuwait intelligence summaries and Bahrain intelligence reports.The volume includes three dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 651; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 563-649 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
21. Coll 6/10(2) 'Saudi-Arabian Affairs: Financial and Internal situation'
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- Abstract: This file relates to the finances of the Saudi Arabian Government and to the political situation in Saudi Arabia generally. It consists partly of copies of correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, succeeded by Major Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), and partly of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Reader William Bullard), which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. Matters discussed in the correspondence include changes to the value of the Saudi riyal, Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] indebtedness to the Qusaibi [Āl Quṣaybī] family, and concerns held both by the Political Resident and by the Political Agent that members of the Qusaibi family could attempt to establish themselves as official representatives of Ibn Saud in Bahrain. The file also includes a short report from the British Minister at Jedda, which discusses the state of affairs in Saudi Arabia generally.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.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 27; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 1-26 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
22. File 1173/1914 ‘Muscat:- financial affairs. Loans to the Sultan.’
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to the financial affairs of the Muscat (Maskat) state. It includes correspondence concerning loans from the British Government to the Sultan of Muscat, reports on the financial position of Muscat, and financial statements for the Muscat state, such as estimates of revenue and expenditure, and statements of actual revenue and expenditure.The main correspondents are as follows:The India Office and the Viceroy of India, Foreign Department.The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Government of India Foreign Department.The Government of India Foreign Department and the Political Agent and HBM Consul, Maskat [Muscat].The India Office and the Foreign Office.The Political Agent and HBM Consul, Maskat, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (and the Deputy Political Resident).The file also includes India Office minute papers and India Office internal notes (between John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Sir Thomas William Holderness, and others).The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 305; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
23. File 5924/1920 Pt 1 ‘Persia: Financial Position of Persian Govt. Possibility of consolidating external debt’
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- Abstract: This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding British claims on their loans to Persia [Iran], and Persia’s financial affairs generally.The papers notably cover:Details of the loans, including British claims, recovery of interest owed, and regulation of paymentsCorrespondence between British authorities and the Imperial Bank of Persia regarding the Persian Government’s request for advances on a loanProposals for the reorganisation of Persian financesA speculated loan to Persia from the United States of America.The principal correspondents include: the British Legation, Tehran (correspondence sometimes comes from Gulhek [Qolhak, also written as Gula Hek], which was the Legation’s summer hill station); Sydney Rogers, Manager of the Imperial Bank of Persia; HM Treasury; and Lancelot Oliphant, Foreign Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 423; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 391-421; these numbers are written in red ink.
24. File 5924/1920 Pt 2-3 ‘PERSIA: FINANCE’
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- Abstract: This volume primarily contains correspondence, telegrams, memoranda and reports regarding the financial affairs of the Government of Persia [Iran]. The volume is formed of two parts:‘Financial Situation. Persian debt to H.M. Govt’ (IOR/L/PS/10/921/1)‘Debt to H.M.G. Private claims against Persian Govt’ (IOR/L/PS/10/921/2).Each part includes a divider, which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 537; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Three additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 393-408, ff 453-458, and ff 482-497; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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