Abstract: This file contains papers relating to the appointment of British representatives and consuls at various locations in several countries newly liberated from Germany towards the end of the Second World War. The papers include extensive lists of newly open positions for consular representation across the world. The majority of the papers relate to the reestablishment of British consular representation in liberated France, and especially in regions of the south and south-west. Some papers mention the presence of a large number of destitute British subjects in urgent need of aid.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 33; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams and other correspondence by 'fast air mail' between the Under-Secretary of State for India, London, and the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, concerning the dispatch of Foreign Office secret packets to and from British Consulates in Asia and the Persian Gulf.Destinations for the secret packets include to HM Consuls in Bahrain, Muscat, Kabul, Kuwait, Jalalabad, Kandahar, and Nova-Goa.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 72; 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 A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The file contains a small number of telegrams sent between Sir Reader William Bullard, HM Minister at Tehran; the Foreign Office; and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India. The subject matter is the circulation of Consular reports from Persia [Iran] and the extent that these reports should be permitted to include criticism of British military authorities.A list of correspondence references by year can be found on the front cover.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence related to the re-establishment of local administration in Persia [Iran] following the Anglo-Soviet Invasion in 1941. The focus of the file is the distribution of wheat, though security matters do receive some consideration. A large proportion of the papers are related to the appointment of Area Liaison Officers, Consular Liaison Officers, and Vice-Consuls to provide supervision of Persian provincial administration. This includes correspondence over the conditions, pay, and allowances of these officers.The main correspondents are as follows: Sir Reader William Bullard, HM Minister at Tehran (from 1943 Ambassador); Adrian Holman, Chargé d'affaires at Tehran; officials of the Foreign Office, officials of the India Office, and representatives of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 217; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains the British Government's published lists of career and non-career consular officers from 1939 to 1946. The file is primarily composed of annually published pamphlets listing consular staff, their rank, titular office, acting officers, and date of appointment.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 157; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file consists of correspondence and statements related to Diplomatic and Consular expenditure in Iran by the Government of India 1935-36.Correspondents include: the India Office; the Accountant General, Central Revenues; the Auditor of Indian Home Accounts; and the Accountant General, India Office.It contains:Account between India Office and Foreign Office for 1935-36.Statements comparing the expenditure incurred by the Government of India on Diplomatic and Consular Services in Iran 1935-36 with that in the previous year.Summary of expenditure from Indian Revenues relating to places outside Iran for 1935-36.Statement of expenditure incurred on the Koweit [Kuwait] Agency during 1935-36.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 (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 31; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence and papers concerning expenditure on diplomatic and consular services in Iran and the Persian Gulf from 1936 to 1940.It includes correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office; the Treasury; the Government of India, External Affairs Department; and the Governor General of India. It also includes: statements comparing the expenditure incurred by the Government of India on diplomatic and consular services in Iran for a particular year with that of the previous year, for the years 1936 to 1939; and statements of expenditure incurred on the Koweit [Kuwait] Agency during the years 1936 to 1940.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 117; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the treatment to be accorded to enemy consuls de carrière and unsalaried consuls of enemy nationality in British territory on the outbreak of the Second World War.It mostly consists of: copies of telegrams between the Dominions Office and the Governments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire [Ireland] and South Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], regarding the treatment of German consuls and consular staff in those countries; and copies of telegrams between the Secretary of State for Burma and the Governor of Burma regarding the departure of German consular staff from Burma.It also includes: a letter from Roland Tennyson Peel, India Office, to the Secretary, Government of India, External Affairs Department, 22 July 1939 (folios 51-52), regarding the treatment of enemy consular officers in the United Kingdom, and similar action to be taken by the Government of India in detaining enemy consuls in India until satisfactory assurances are received from the enemy government, in the event of the outbreak of war; and other related 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 53; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises a printed copy of the report 'British Summer Legation at Gulhek. Provisional Edition, 1939' written by Lacy Baggallay. The report discusses the history, property, water supply, buildings, plans and reports relating to the British summer legation at Gulhek, seven miles north of Tehran.The contents include a list of schedules:Plan of the British Legation Property at GulhekReports on the British Legation Property at GulhekAcquisition of property, 1862-1928: land; trees; waterList of buildings comprising the legationEnclosed with the report in the volume is a covering letter, dated 6 December 1940, from the Foreign Office to the Under-Secretary of State, India Office, requesting that the report be brought to the attention of the Secretary of State for India.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 (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 62; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to wartime transfers from Iraq to India for the safe keeping of the records of the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and Consul-General at Baghdad, 1756-1917, and also those of the High Commissioner for Iraq at Baghdad, a post established in 1920. The first transfer of records took place after the British occupation of Baghdad in 1917.It is agreed between government officials that the work of examining, selecting and cataloguing the records would be done at the Government of India Imperial Record Department, Calcutta, and paid for by the Foreign Office. It is also agreed that at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945), the selected records would be transferred to England for permanent preservation at the Public Record Office (later the National Archives of the United Kingdom). There are two enclosures of an earlier date than the main correspondence. These are a telegram from the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia to the Government of India in 1918, and two copies of Foreign Office instructions issued in 1920 about the criteria for the preservation or destruction of British Consular records, in accordance with the Public Record Office Act, 1877.The principal correspondents are: Stephen Gaselee, Librarian, Foreign Office; John P Gibson, Head of Political Department, India Office; and M Smith, Secretary, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department.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 (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 44; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to the regular dispatch overseas of Foreign Office secret and confidential documents in sealed packets, by arrangement with the India Office in London. These are sent by sea mail to India, for onward transmission to the following Consular and Political Officers in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat; Pondicherry in French India; Kabul, Kandahar, Jalabad [Jaalalabad] in Afghanistan; Panjim and Marmagao in Portuguese India; Kashgar and Tengyueh [Tengchong] in China; Katmandu [Kathmandu]; and Seistan [Sistan] in Iran.The file does not contain the Foreign Office documents included in dispatches, only the covering letters that accompany them on their journey. These are largely from the Under-Secretary of State for India, London, to the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, New Delhi, who is asked to confirm safe receipt and onward transmission to the addressees.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 foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 457; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file contains a series of booklets that are lists of permanent and temporary officers of the British Foreign Service at consular posts, but also those of representatives of foreign states and commonwealth countries in London. The lists are organised by country, include most dignitaries, officers, and attaches of the respective country's diplomatic mission, and cover the years 1948 and 1949.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 133; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.