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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Diplomacy

611. IOR/L/PS/12/2182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2182
Title:
Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provision...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Aug 1926-28 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 volume (591 folios)

612. IOR/L/PS/12/2193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2193
Title:
Coll 7/25 'Persia and Persian Gulf: proposed Anglo-Persian Convention'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding attempts to negotiate an Anglo-Persian arms convention, intended to regulate arms traffic in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence concerns the following: the changing patterns of arms traffic in the Persian Gulf; Persian attitudes to the Slave Traffic ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Dec 1933-4 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

613. IOR/L/PS/12/2207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2207
Title:
Coll 7/38(S) 'Muscat: export of arms and ammunition to the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding a formal visit made by the Royal Pakistan Naval vessel HMPS Jhelum to Muscat, during which a consignment of gunpowder was transported to the Sultan of Muscat. The Government of India had arranged for the transport of gunpowder three years earlier, but had been unable to e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1949-27 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

614. IOR/L/PS/12/2802

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2802
Title:
Coll 16/33 'Establishments. Employment in Koweit of retired Political Agent: case of Col Dickson. appt as Chief Local Representative of the Kuwait Oil Coy.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda and other documents relating to the appointment of Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson as the first Chief Local Representative of the Kuwait Oil Company following his retirement from the post of Political Agent, Kuwait [also spelled Kowe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1935-14 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

615. IOR/L/PS/12/2846

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2846
Title:
Coll 17/2 'Arabia (Yemen). Relations between Iraq & Yemen. Treaty of Friendship.'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding relations between Iraq and Yemen, from the Iraqi Mission to Yemen in 1931, the subsequent Treaty of Friendship agreed between the two countries, and the eventual accession of Yemen to the Iraqi-Saudi Treaty of Arab Brotherhood and Alliance. The file includes the following treati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1931-4 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (133 folios)

616. IOR/L/PS/12/2898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2898
Title:
Coll 17/36 ‘Iraq. On of Estabt. of Diplomatic relations between Iraq + U.S.S.R.’
Scope & Content:
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 (s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1941-19 Dec 1941
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

617. IOR/L/PS/12/3419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3419
Title:
Coll 28/22 ’Persia; Relations with H.M.G. Persian Debt to H.M.G.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the Persian Government’s desire, signalled in June 1931, to pay off in full a pre-war interest-bearing debt owed to Britain, totalling £490,000. Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter, George William Rendel), the India Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-1 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (191 folios)

618. IOR/L/PS/12/3442

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3442
Title:
Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’
Scope & Content:
Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
10 Mar 1930-1 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 volume (583 folios)

619. IOR/L/PS/12/3446

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3446
Title:
Coll 28/43 ‘Persia. Russia & Soviet Legation at Tehran.’
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1923-18 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

620. IOR/L/PS/12/3448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3448
Title:
Coll 28/44 ‘Persia; Internal; Fars affairs, Shiraz Situation including Papers on Isfahan Plot.’
Scope & Content:
Papers and reports concerning a rebellion against the Persian Government by the country’s southern tribes (including the Qashqai and Bakhtiari) in the provinces of Isfahan and Fars in August 1946. The papers include: correspondence between the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougete...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Sep 1946-29 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (153 folios)