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61. Coll 28/45 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Treaty negotiations; abrogation of existing treaties.’
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- Abstract: The correspondence concerns the drafting of an article for a general treaty between Great Britain and Persia [Iran] that would outline the abrogation of treaties, conventions and agreements concluded between the two nations before 1928. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; George William Rendel of the Foreign Office; John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office. The file includes several French texts which include drafts of the treaty article being discussed, and copies of correspondence from the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.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 77; these numbers are written in pencil 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 A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
62. Coll 28/46 ‘Persia. Who’s Who, and Leading Personalities in:’
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- Abstract: Printed copies of reports entitled Biographies of Leading Personalities in Persia(also referred to in the file as Who’s Who in Persia, and Report on Personalities in Persia). The reports were compiled by officials at the British Legation in Tehran, and updated periodically. The file contains copies for the years 1929 (ff 5-14), 1930 (ff 24-34), 1931 (ff 37-45), 1932 (ff 53-62), 1943 (ff 69-100), and 1946 (ff 106-124). The last report in the file is entitled Personalities in Persia: MilitarySupplement. This report is typescript rather than printed, and dated 1947 (ff 133-174).The reports for 1929 and 1930 arrange Persian notables in order of importance, beginning with the Shah and Minister of Court, Mirza Abdul Hussein Khan Taimourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh]. The remaining reports arrange individuals alphabetically by their family name. All reports contain biographical notes, such as background, family, and career. Many also include an assessment of their character and demeanour, their disposition towards the British, and foreign languages spoken. The 1947 report specifically concerns individuals in the Persian military, with their biographies restricted to their military careers.The file also includes some correspondence, covering: the distribution of the reports; biographies submitted by the British Legation in Tehran for inclusion in future editions of the reports; the resignation and reconstitution of the Government in 1946, with biographies of those making up the new cabinet (ff 129-131).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 176; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
63. Coll 28/47 ‘Persia. Judicial. Obligation of foreign subjects to deposit security for costs in law suits.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning a law passed by the Persian Government in 1929 that obliged foreign subjects in Persia [Iran] to deposit security for costs in law suits brought before the ’Adliyeh (Courts of the Persian Ministry of Justice). The correspondence, chiefly exchanged between HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive, and the Foreign Office in London, concerns: the impact of the law upon British subjects in Persia; reciprocal treatment for Persians; application of the law to Iraqi subjects living in Persia; current practice in the Indian courts.The file contains a single item in French: the text of the law in question, originally published in the Messager de Téhéran(f 50).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 51; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
64. Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.'
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- Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, and other papers, concerning relations between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Persian Government, and between the British and Persian governments over APOC operations in Persia [Iran]. The file covers: reports of attacks on APOC drilling operations at Bikarz [Bīd Karz] and Mishun in 1923; Soviet propaganda published against APOC in the Persian province of Khuzistan in 1927; disturbances amongst Persian APOC employees at Abadan in May and June 1929, and the British response to these disturbances, including the despatch of naval vessels to the Persian Gulf; copies of a 1931 memorandum entitled 'South Persian Oilfields Defence Scheme', produced by the Overseas Defence Committee at the Foreign Office (ff 76-86); a 1931 'Report on the Tribes in the Area exploited by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd', prepared by R J Moneypenny at HM Consulate, Ahwaz [Ahvāz] (ff 24-54); anti-APOC articles published in the newspaper Shafaq-e-Surkhin 1931, which criticise the D'Arcy Concession of 1901 (translations enclosed, ff 6-16), and the subsequent protest at the content of the articles made by the British Government to the Persian Government. The volume's principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive; HM Vice-Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Captain E W Fletcher; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.The volume contains a small number of items in French, being correspondence exchanged between the British and Persian Governments and three copies of the Persian newspaper Le Messager de Teheran(ff 61-66).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 last folio with 268; 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, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
65. Coll 28/49 ‘Persia. Income Tax Law. Income Tax on A.P.O.C.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the Persian Government’s income tax law, its implementation, and likely income tax claims that will be made on British interests in Persia [Iran], including the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The file includes multiple iterations of the new tax law (most in French), which was amended and augmented over time. The file’s principal correspondent is HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, Horace James Seymour and Reader William Bullard.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 93; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
66. Coll 28/50 ‘Persia. Foreigners in Persia. Foreigners, other than British subjects.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the presence of non-British foreigners in Persia [Iran], usually reported by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Robert Henry Clive, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Horace James Seymour. The papers include: a memorandum dated 1929 written by Alan Charles Trott, on foreigners employed by the Persian Government, with details of nationalities and post occupied (ff 33-36); the issue of an order by the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] in 1931, curtailing contact between foreigners and Persian military officers (ff 27-28); the appointment in 1931 of Belgian financial experts to positions in the Persian Government (f 26); the discharge in 1932 of a number of Germans from their employment in the Persian arsenal (f 24); the dismissal in 1932 of Dr Lindenblatt, a German citizen, from the Persian National Bank (ff 21-23); the Persian Government’s engagement in 1933 of a number of Austrians and Germans, who are experts in forestry, geology, botany, metallurgy (ff 18-20); in 1934, the non-renewal of contracts of a number of Belgian customs officials (ff 13-17); orders issued by the Persian Government in 1938 for the expulsion of Jews from Persia (ff 4-12), with particular reference to the implementation of the order in the province of Khuzistan [Khūzestān].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 37; 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.
67. Coll 28/51 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Treaty negotiations: Article regarding private claims.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to the drafting of an article for the Anglo-Persian Treaty, concerning private claims made against the British and Persian Governments. The correspondence concerns: the exclusion from the article of British Indian claims; an agreement by both parties to not pursue certain claims arising from the ‘exceptional circumstances obtaining during the [First] world war’ (f 155); general treaty instructions from the India Office, sent to the British Legation in Tehran; details of an historic claim for approximately £900,000, made against the British Government by a Persian subject named Socrates Atychides, whose ship, the Kara Deniz, was detained and declared as prize at Bombay [Mumbai] in 1914; a printed copy of a general review of British claims against Persia, prepared by Hugh Ritchie, formerly of the Foreign Office. Ritchie’s review includes indexes to supplementary volumes (not included in the file) entitled Persia (Legation Claims), Persia: Consulate Claims (Peace-Time), and Persia: Consulate Claims (War-Time)(ff 22-51). The indexes are lists of British claimants.Principal correspondents in the file include: John Charles Walton and John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office; George William Rendel and Christopher Frederick Ashton Warner of the Foreign Office; W R L Trickett of HM’s Treasury.The file contains a single paragraph of French text: a draft of the claims article submitted by the Government of Persia (f 168).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 178; 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.
68. Coll 28/52 ‘Persia. Russian agents & Anti-British Indians in’
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- Abstract: Reports from British officials in Persia [Iran] reporting on: the activities of alleged Russian intelligence agents operating in Persia; the dissemination of Soviet communist propaganda in Persia; the Persian authorities’ attempts to uncover and root out suspected Russian intelligence agents; the expulsion from Persia of British subjects suspected of working for the Russian intelligence services, and the arrest and sentencing to death of others charged with espionage. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; the British Consul at Tabriz, Clarence Edward Stanhope Palmer.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 45; 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.
69. Coll 28/60(2) ‘Persia; Treatment of Foreigners; Position of British subjects, British Consular Representatives, etc.,’
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- Abstract: Correspondence, reports and other papers concerning the ill-treatment of British subjects in Persia [Iran] by the Persian authorities. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/60(1) ‘Persia. Treatment of Foreigners; Position of British subjects, and British Consular Representatives, etc.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3466). The file covers: the treatment and deportation of British subjects (Berberis, or Hazara Khawari) from the Khorasan province of Persia into neighbouring British India (Pakistan); an incident occurring in 1938 in which a bus carrying British consular officials was commandeered by an officer of the Persian military; claims of discrimination against British subjects in Meshed [Mashhad]; a boycott imposed upon the British Consulate at Meshed by the Persian Government; correspondence describing the general attitude of the Persian authorities towards British persons in Persia; a ‘Report on the Attitude towards the British in Persia in March 1938’, written by Lieutenant Ian Hallam Lyall-Grant of the Royal Engineers (ff 134-142).The file’s principal correspondents are: Nevile Montagu Butler of the British Legation in Tehran; HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Horace James Seymour; HM’s Consul at Meshed, Giles Frederick Squire; Charles William Baxter and Herbert Lacy Baggallay of the Foreign Office; the Government of India.The file contains a single item in Persian, a typewritten letter (accompanied by English translation) from the British Embassy in Tehran to the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 23 April 1947 (f 5).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 304; 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.
70. Coll 28/68 ‘Persia. Anglo Persian relations. British Press Articles on Persia and the Shah.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence relating to articles published in the British newspaper press (and to a lesser extent, the British Indian press) about Persia [Iran] and the Shah of Persia, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes cuttings of many of the newspaper articles referred to in the correspondence, most being published in The Times. The correspondence concerns the diplomatic implications (both feared and realised) arising from press articles that are critical of Persia, its government, or the Shah’s rule. Amongst the articles appearing in The Timesthat are included in the file are two written by the travel writer Robert Byron, entitled Middle Eastern Journey: The Glories of Islam(f 101) and Middle Eastern Journey: Hindu Kush by Car(f 102).The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson, Horace James Seymour; the Foreign Office.Also included in the file are cuttings and extracts of articles from the Persian press (in French, with some accompanied by English translations), that were written in response to articles in the British press.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 212; 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.
71. Coll 28/71 ‘Persia. Wireless Stations operated by the I. & I. C. Ltd. in Persia.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence concerning the importation of stores and equipment for wireless stations in the Persian Gulf (at Bushire, Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Jask, and Charbar [Chabahar]) operated by Imperial and International Communications Limited (I&ICL), amid the handover of the stations to the Persian Government. The file is a chronological continuation of papers found in Coll 28/26 ‘Relations with H.M.G Importation of Stores for I.E.T.D. Staff’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3423). The correspondence focuses on the payment of customs duty on materials imported by I&ICL, and efforts to negotiate an exemption of the payment of duty with the Persian Government. The file’s principal correspondents are: various representatives of I&ICL; HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran; the Foreign Office.The file includes a printed copy of the 1932 agreement (in English and French) between the British and Persian Governments, for the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia (ff 116-119).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 233; 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.
72. Coll 28/76 ‘Persia. Turkey. Turco-Persian Frontier.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence, maps and other papers exchanged between British officials in response to a 1927 dispute between Persia [Iran] and Turkey over the delimitation of the frontier between the two countries. The dispute arose when Persian troops crossed the frontier into Turkey. The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran; HM’s Ambassador at Constantinople, George Russell Clerk, who also wrote from his summer residence at Therapia [Tarabya]. The file covers:Correspondence dated 1927 commentating on diplomatic relations between Persia and Turkey, and the diplomatic efforts between the two countries to resolve the frontier disputeThe ratification of an agreement between the Governments of Persia and Turkey, establishing the frontier between the two countries. A copy of the agreement (in French), dated 1933, is included in the file (ff 34-35).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 214; 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.