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121. IOR/L/PS/12/319

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/319
Title:
PZ 7705/39 'Egypt: British Embassy measures to influence Arabic press'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of correspondence between British officials relating to press activities in Egypt, namely the way that Britain and its interests are portrayed in the newspapers. A memorandum written by Albert Napier Williamson Napier (Assistant Oriental Secretary (Press and Publicity) for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1939-21 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

122. IOR/L/PS/12/320

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/320
Title:
PZ 7715/39 'Middle East Intelligence Centre: Anglo Egyptian Censorship; information summaries'
Scope & Content:
This summary, compiled by the Middle East Intelligence Centre, uses information received through Anglo-Egyptian censorship to provide a picture of various subjects relating to Nazi Germany including: Germany. Internal Conditions; conditions in neutral territories; military information; economic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-11 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

123. IOR/L/PS/12/322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/322
Title:
PZ 8058/1939 'Persia: censorship of news'
Scope & Content:
This letter was sent from Horace James Seymour (British Minister at Tehran) to Viscount Halifax (Foreign Secretary), and details the practice of, and possible reasons for, police censorship of the news in Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1939-10 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

124. IOR/L/PS/12/324

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/324
Title:
PZ 147/40 'Oil: question of desirability of supply to British territories by British owned companies'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this file relates to the desirability of ensuring that supplies of oil to British territories are made, as far as possible, by British owned companies. The main correspondents in the file are the Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the Persian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1940-23 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

125. IOR/L/PS/12/327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/327
Title:
PZ 376/1940 'Turkey: Earthquake in Turkey, 1939.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the 1939 Turkish earthquake. It largely consists of: copies of letters from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Counsellor, British Embassy, Angora [Ankara], Turkey, forwarding enclosed correspondence reg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1940-14 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

126. IOR/L/PS/12/330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/330
Title:
PZ 645/40(1) 'Persian Gulf Movements of the Political Resident'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the India Office, London, and the External Affairs Department (formerly the Foreign and Political Department) of the Government of India, New Delhi. These relate to the Resident’s movements and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1928-9 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (407 folios)

127. IOR/L/PS/12/331

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/331
Title:
PZ 645/40(2) ‘Persian Gulf. Movement of the Political Resident (& temporary addresses)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the India Office, London, and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, New Delhi. These relate to the Resident’s movements and temporary addresses, as well as the acting arra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1942-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (200 folios)

128. IOR/L/PS/12/334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/334
Title:
PZ 831/40 'Rumour (unfounded) that Americans had been warned to leave Persia before the end of November 1939'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to a rumour that American citizens had been advised by their Consuls to leave Iran, as the American Consulate would not be responsible for their safety after November 1939. The main correspondents are the Central Intelligence ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1940-24 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

129. IOR/L/PS/12/336

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/336
Title:
PZ 1030/40 'Documents of Historical Interest among Consular Archives. Baghdad Consular Archives'
Scope & Content:
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 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1929-5 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

130. IOR/L/PS/12/337

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/337
Title:
PZ 1069/40 'List of Geographical Names'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to changes in foreign place names reported by British consular officers to the Foreign Office and the India Office in London, for sending on to the Secretary to the Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use, known as the PCGN, at...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1931-11 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (158 folios)