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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1782-1968

221. IOR/L/PS/12/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/195
Title:
PZ 608/36 'Payments to the Imperial Bank of Persia (on a/c of HM Minister at Tehran)'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to payments made to the Imperial Bank of Persia on the account of HM Minister at Tehran. The file features the following principal correspondents: the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Under...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1936-30 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (106 folios)

222. IOR/L/PS/12/275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/275
Title:
PZ 166/1939 'Polish representation in Persia, Iraq and Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter which was forwarded from the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for India in January 1939. The forwarded letter is dated 14 December 1938 and was sent by Howard William Kennard, HM Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland, to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1939-13 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

223. IOR/L/PS/12/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/304
Title:
PZ 5749/1939(2) 'Propaganda: Articles forwarded to Persian Gulf, Kabul & Katmandu for dissemination'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, mainly telegrams, relating to British propaganda forwarded to the Persian Gulf for dissemination. It largely consists of fortnightly telegrams from the Public Relations Officer/Publicity Officer, Bahrein [Bahrain], to the Secretary of State for India, reportin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1942-2 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (101 folios)

224. IOR/L/PS/12/316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/316
Title:
PZ 7261/39 'Kabul Mail: inclusion in India Office bag of papers, etc, for members of Legation Staff, etc'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the acquisition of 'certain periodicals' for the British Legation at Kabul for 'propaganda purposes' during the Second World War (1939-1945). The correspondence mainly details the dispute over which department should be liable for purchasing the peri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1939-10 Feb 1943
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

225. 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)

226. IOR/L/PS/12/340

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/340
Title:
PZ 1071/1940 ''Forminka' and 'Katodon' telegrams: last number for each year'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers which record the numbers of the last coded telegrams sent each year between 1931 and 1947. These details are captured on draft papers and official telegrams sent between HM Minister at Kabul and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The coded telegrams from the F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1931-9 Jan 1947
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)

227. IOR/L/PS/12/343

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/343
Title:
PZ 1125/40 'German propaganda in the Near East'
Scope & Content:
This document, written by Basil Cochrane Newton (the British Ambassador at Baghdad), outlines concerns that Shakib Arslan is assisting the German Government in planning and organising uprisings in Syria, Iraq, Transjordan and Palestine, and that he is in correspondence with the Grand Mufti of Je...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1940-28 Feb 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

228. IOR/L/PS/12/355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/355
Title:
PZ 1448/1940 'Sino-Japanese dispute: visit of Chinese Moslem delegation to Turkey and Afghanistan'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this file relates to the expected visit of two Chinese Muslims to Afghanistan following their stay in Angora. The upcoming event is highlighted in a letter from Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen (HM Ambassador to Turkey) to Viscount Halifax (Secretary of State for Foreign...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1940-28 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

229. IOR/L/PS/12/386

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/386
Title:
PZ 3077/40 'Arabia: note on present position of the Ikhwan movement'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note sent from Sir Hugh Stonehewer Bird, HM Minister at Jedda, to Viscount Halifax, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The subject of the note is a discussion of the current status and situation of the Ikhwan movement.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 May 1940-6 Jun 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

230. IOR/L/PS/12/437

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/437
Title:
PZ 6079/40 Correspondence requesting that Facilities for Safe Passage between London and Tehran be granted to Mr Fazlollah Nabil of the Persian Legation, London
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from the Foreign Office to the India Office, communicating the desire of Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that facilities for safe passage should be extended to Mr Fazlollah Nabil, Counsellor of the Persian Legation in London, as he travels to T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Nov 1940-12 Nov 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)