Abstract: Correspondence regarding a visit by Sultan Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] of Muscat to India and Pakistan in November to December 1949. The papers concern arrangements for travel, formalities to be followed, itinerary (see folio 17), and the allegation that the Sultan was not given due consideration by the British High Commissioner in Pakistan.The principal correspondents include officials from the Persian Gulf Residency in Bahrain, Foreign Office, Political Agency in Muscat, Commonwealth Relations Office, Government of Pakistan, and the United Kingdom High Commissioners for India and Pakistan.Also contained within the file is a note by Frederick Charles Leslie Chauncy, Political Agent, Muscat, on the visit, dated 23 January 1950, with some comment on the Sultan's personality (folio 14).Folios 2-5 are internal office notes.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; 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in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.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: Reports from HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, and the British Ambassador in Turkey, Percy Lyham Loraine, along with newspaper cuttings from
The Times,
The Near East and Indiaand
The Evening Standard, reporting on the Shah of Persia’s [Reza Shah Pahlavi] visit to Turkey, including to Angora [Ankara]. The reports focus on: the Shah’s movements and meetings; speculation regarding the discussions that took place between the Shah and Turkish officials, including the prospect of an agreement between Persia [Iran], Turkey, Iraq, and Afghanistan; press coverage of the visit. The file includes one item in French, a newspaper cutting from the Persian newspaper
Le Messager de Teheran(f 5A).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 44; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence and reports submitted by British officials in Persia [Iran], along with newspaper cuttings collected from the British and Persian press, relating to the Shah of Persia, Reza Shah Pahlavi. Subjects covered include:The Shah’s tours and visits around Persia, including to the towns and cities of Sistan [Zabol], Bushire, Shiraz, Meshed [Mashhad], Kermanshah, Tabriz, Ahwaz [Ahvāz].Reports of economic and political conditions in Persia.The first Minister of the Persia Court, Teymourtache [Abdolhossein Teymūrtāsh], including his dismissal by the Shah in 1933, and his subsequent trial, imprisonment and death.Speculation over the health of the Shah.Treatment of the Bakhtiari tribes by the Shah and his Government.The Shah’s programme of modernisation in Persia, including the enforcement of European hats for men and unveiling of women, military reforms, and schemes for urban development.A rebellion and massacre at the Goharshad shrine in Meshed in July 1935, provoked by a backlash against the Shah’s modernising tendencies. Papers include a secret report written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan, Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly (ff 218-222).Principal correspondents in the file include: the British Legation at Tehran (Reginald Hervey Hoare; Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; Nevile Montagu Butler); the Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran (Victor Alexander Louis Mallet); the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Daly).Newspaper cuttings from the Persian press are written in French.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 510; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present in parallel between ff 222-510 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper cuttings relating to an official visit made by the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bagher Kazemi, to Kabul, Afghanistan, and New Delhi, India. The file’s principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Aside from general commercial matters, specific subjects discussed by Kazemi and Government of India officials, as recorded in memoranda and notes in the file, include: the Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; the status of the Political Residency at Bushire, Iran, and questions over its transfer to Bahrain; the demarcation of the Iran-Baluchistan frontier; the employment of officers of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India at consular posts in Iran; lorry traffic on the Nok Kundi to Zahidan [Zahedan] road. The file also contains a sequence of newspaper articles dated 2-27 February 1936, appearing in the French-language newspaper
Le Journal de Teheran, and reporting at length on Kazemi’s visit (ff 6-28).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 155; 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 concerns visits to Bahrain by members of the royal family of Saudi Arabia; in particular the visit of Emir Saud [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd], son of Ibn Saud [Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], in December 1937; and the visit of Ibn Saud himself in March 1939.The papers include detailed reports on both visits by the Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman): folios 48-55 (1937) and folios 13-21 (1939), with comments by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle). Both visits were considered by the British to have been a great success (folio 11).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.
Abstract: Correspondence, reports and other papers submitted by British officials in Iran, relating to the movements and actions of the Shah of Iran, Reza Shah Pahlavi, and labour legislation passed by the Government of Iran. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/9 ‘Persia; Internal affairs; Shah’s tours in Persia: general situation reports’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3404). The file includes:Two reports written by the British Consul-General for Khorasan and Sistan (Captain Giles Frederick Squire). Both are entitled ‘An appreciation of the political situation in East Iran’, and dated 31 May 1938 (ff 59-65) and 6 December 1938 (ff 48-54) respectively.A report describing the Shah’s visit to Ahwaz [Ahvāz] in March 1939 (ff 39-43).A copy of a report, written by the Press Attaché at the British Legation at Tehran (Ann Katherine Swynford Lambton), dated 1 May 1941, on the state of public opinion in Iran in response to events in the Second World War in Iran’s neighbours, Iraq and Russia (ff 33-34).Papers relating to new labour legislation introduced by the Government of Iran in 1946, including a translation of regulations concerning the duties, organisation and procedure of the Supreme Labour Council (ff 18-19), and a translation of minimum wage regulations (ff 8-12).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 66; 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 volume contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding the arrangements and programmes for visits to Bahrain of the following:the Minister at Jedda, Sir Andrew Ryan, visiting the Gulf;the Political Agent at Kuwait;Mr Rendel of the Foreign Office;Dr Pawelke, Secretary to the German legation in Baghdad;Mr Loxle;the British Ministry at Tehran, Mr and Mrs Seymour, visiting Qatar and Bahrain;Princess Alice and Earl of Athlone, on a private visit to Ibn Saud and to Bahrain, Qatar and to the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASOC) oil camp at Al Khobar;the British Ministry in Jedda, Sir Reader Bullard;the British Ambassador at Baghdad, Sir Basil Cochrane Newton visiting Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and CASOC at Dharhan (account of his tour on folios 246-256);Emir Saud [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd] visiting Baghdad;the Officers of the Geological Survey of India visiting the Persian Gulf.The documents in the volume are mainly in English. There is correspondence in Arabic with English translations, with Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani, Ruler of Qatar, and the Government of Saudi Arabia at Al Khobar.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 287; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are present between ff 5-259 and ff 260-283 respectively. These numbers are also written in pencil, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
Abstract: The volume consists of telegrams, draft letters, and departmental notes concerning the proposed visit of Abdulla [‘Abdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī] to Cairo and London. The visits were proposed following suggestions that Abdulla's father, King Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] of the Hedjaz [Hejaz], might travel to London. Discussion of the merits of the visits takes place in light of the unsettled political situation in many parts of the Middle East following the First World War and the convening of the Damascus Conference [Syrian National Congress]. Correspondence is between officials at the Foreign Office, the India Office, and Lord Allenby [Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby], High Commissioner of Egypt.The volume 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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 20; 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.