Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 24 January 1873 and received via Brindisi on 17 February 1873, communicating the views of the Government of India on the question of consular jurisdiction in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf, in reply to despatch No. 67 of 31 May 1871.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 161, and terminates at f 172b, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 163a, f 172a, and f 172b.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 6 March 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 30 March 1874, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Chief Commissioner of British Burmah [Burma], and enquiring whether the formation of Persian [Iranian] vice-consulates at Rangoon [Yangon] and Moulmein [Mawlamyine] has been agreed to by HM Government.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 23 and terminates at f 26, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 23a and f 25a.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Kinahan Cornwallis), the Foreign Office, the Government of India External Affairs Department, and the India Office (Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold), regarding the appointment of a new United States Minister to Iraq.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 8; 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 papers relating to relations between Iraq and Syria, specifically: the ‘Bon-Voisinage’ Agreement between the two countries signed on 24 April 1937; and the Government of Iraq opening a Consulate in Aleppo [in Syria].The papers are mostly letters to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden, Viscount Halifax) from the following: Archibald Clark Kerr, HM Ambassador to Iraq; Gilbert MacKereth (with enclosures), HM Consul Damascus; and A W Davies, HM Consul, Aleppo.The file includes the official text of the ‘Bon-Voisinage’ Agreement in French (folios 7 to 8, this is an enclosure to a letter from MacKereth to Eden).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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 10; 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 2-9; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains papers relating to the proposed establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Iraq.The papers mainly consist of copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and the following:Sir Basil Newton and Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, HM Ambassador to Iraq (successively).Sir (Richard) Stafford Cripps, HM Ambassador to the USSR.Sir Reader (William) Bullard, HM Minister to Iran.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 28; 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 2-27; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains a carbon copy of one letter from the Foreign Office to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 26 January 1942 (sent by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for India), informing the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty that the status of the consular post at Basra had been raised to that of a consulate-general for the duration of the Second World War, and that William Lowry Craig Knight had assumed charge as HM Consul-General on 22 January 1942.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 5; 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 papers mostly relating to the following: the proposal by the Prime Minister of Iraq that Iraqi officials should be employed in British Consulates, for the purpose of training them in consular work until Iraqi Consulates could be established in neighbouring countries to Iraq, and in countries with which Iraq had important commercial relations; and the proposal of the Iraqi Prime Minister that pending Persian [Iranian] recognition of Iraq, an Iraqi representative should be attached to HM Legation, Tehran, to assist Robert Henry Clive, British Minister at Tehran, in the consideration of questions affecting Iraqi interests.The file also includes papers relating to the following: the decision of the Government of Iraq to approach the Persian Government directly regarding their decision to appoint Kamil Beg Al Gilani as Consul at Kermanshah, and Ahmed Zaki Beg Al Khaiyat as Vice Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr]; and the desire of the Iraqi Government to appoint Dr Abdullah Beg Al Damluji as Consul-General at Cairo, and Dr Ahmed Beg Gadri as Honorary Vice Consul at Alexandria.The papers mostly consist of the following: correspondence between the India Office and the Colonial Office; India Office Political Department minute papers; India Office internal notes; correspondence between the India Office Political Department and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; copy correspondence between the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office; copy correspondence between the Colonial Office and the High Commissioner for Iraq; and copy Foreign Office correspondence with British consular officials at Bushire, Tehran, Beyrout [Beirut], Damascus, and Jedda [Jeddah].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 125; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran and the Foreign Office in London. The correspondence concerns appointments to the Persian Legation in London: in 1929, the appointment of the Governor of Khorassan [Khorāsān] Sayyed Hasan Taqizādeh (spelt in various ways throughout the file) to London, with an extract of Taqizādeh’s entry in the 1926 edition of
Persian Who’s Who; in 1933, the recall of the Persian Minister and First Secretary from London; in 1936, the appointment of Ali Soheily to London; in 1941, the reappointment to London of Taqizādeh; in 1942, the appointment of a Persian Military Attaché to London; in 1944, the raising of the status of the Persian Legation in London to an Embassy.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 28; 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 correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the representation of foreign countries in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. Issues discussed specifically include the reaction to Saudi Arabia's trade agent in Kuwait flying the flag of Saudi Arabia, rumours that the Government of Iraq was intending to establish a consulate for the Persian Gulf headquartered in Bahrain, a tour of the Persian Gulf that was made by Paul Knabenshue, the American Minister in Baghdad and a visit made to Kuwait by the German and French diplomatic representatives in Baghdad.In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following documents:'The Bahrein Order in Council, 1913' (folios 91-102)'Final Minutes of meeting held at India Office, 9th October, to consider the question of foreign consular representation in the Persian Gulf' (folios 105-111)'Iraq. Treaty with King Feisal. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. October, 1922' (folios 175-178).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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 264; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence concerning the flying of flags and the positioning of flag staffs at British consular buildings in Persia [Iran], including at Britain’s naval base on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], and the British Consulate at Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The file begins in 1931 with an objection from the Persian Government of the flying of a British flag (the Red Ensign) at buildings in Persian territory, operated by the Imperial and International Communications Company. Subsequent correspondence discusses:The question of whether the Imperial and International Communications Company is entitled, as a private concern, to fly the national flag.The significance to the Persian authorities of flag staffs as claims of territorial sovereignty.Instructions issued to British consular properties in Persia in 1932 to remove flag staffs from their grounds, and to instead fly their flags from the roof of consular buildings.National holidays on which foreign missions and consulates might fly their flags in Persia, with a list of dates on folio 78.Reciprocal measures, imposed by the Government of India, limiting the flying of flags by Persian officials in India.The file’s principal correspondents are: the British Legation at Tehran (Major Percy Charles Russell Dodd, Reginald Hervey Hoare; Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull Hugesson); the Foreign Office (George William Rendel, Lacy Baggallay); the India Office (Charles William Baxter); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle).The file contains a small number of items written in French.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 289; 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: Correspondence relating to the appointment of a Russian ambassador to Persia [Iran]. Letters from HM’s Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Sir Percy Loraine, record the British Government’s fierce resistance to the appointment of a Russian ambassador. Loraine’s concern was that such an appointment would elevate Russia’s diplomatic presence in Persia to a level superior to Britain’s. The file includes two brief communiqués between Loraine and the Russian ambassador, dated December 1925 (ff 44-45). Written in French, they record the occasion of the Russian diplomatic mission’s elevation to the rank of embassy. Subsequent correspondence concerns the movements, activities and changes in personnel at the Russian Embassy in Tehran, as well as reports of Russian espionage in Persia.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 81; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume concerns increases made by the Government of India in the consular grant for the Seistan and Kain consulate (also referred to as Sistan). Additional expenditure was required mainly to maintain an increased consular guard, as a result of local unrest and Afghan raids: this increase was allowed each financial year up to and including 1924-25. Other increases arose from requests from the consulate for furniture, medical supplies, and additional pension allowance for a member of staff.The principal correspondents are the Government of India Finance Department; the Foreign Office; and the Consul for Seistan and Kain.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 contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 193; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.