PZ 2024/1939 'Desire of Japanese diplomatic staff to visit Bahrain and Kuwait'
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This file contains correspondence relating to a proposed visit of Japanese diplomatic staff to Bahrain and Kuwait. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the India Office. The main recipients are the Political Agents in Kuwait and Bahrain and the Secretary of S...
Ext 5000/41(3) 'Persia - General Situation (Sept. & Oct. 1941)'
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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to situation in Persia [Iran] following the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in August 1941. The discussion in the volume relates to the measures taken by Britain in consultation with the United States of Amer...
Ext 5609/41 'Arrest of Iraqis etc. in Persia – question of disposal'
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This file concerns arrangements for the detention by the British military authorities of a number of Iraqi political refugees (plus a smaller number of Palestinian refugees) located in Persia, some of whom are reported to have taken refuge in the Japanese Legation in Tehran. The principal corre...
Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary'
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The file contains correspondence regarding leave arrangements for Government officials in Aden, including the Resident (later Chief Commissioner, and then Governor), the Assistant Residents, the Protectorate Secretary, the Civil Secretary, and the District Magistrate. The following topics are di...
Coll 20/3(3) 'Muscat: Relations with HMG: Commercial Treaty, Revision of'
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The file contains letters, telegrams, minutes, and draft correspondence relating to the revision of the Anglo-Muscat Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891. The papers cover the finalisation and signing of the new treaty on 5 February 1939. The majority of the file covers the fina...
Coll 28/48 'Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company; Relations with Persian Govt.'
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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 Bik...
Coll 28/97A ‘Persia; Tehran. Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence summary.’
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Fortnightly secret summaries (monthly from September 1948) compiled by the Air Attaché at the British Embassy in Tehran, Persia [Iran]. The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/97A ‘Perisa; Tehran; Air Attache’s Weekly Intelligence Summaries’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3508A). The reports co...
Coll 54/3 'Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party. Country by Country Studies'
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The file contains: Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party papers received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); and a register of the papers received (found at the back of the file), with very brief internal notes between Robert (William Doughty) Fowler a...
'Central Asia, Persia, and Afghanistan. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic Movements and connected Information'
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This file contains summaries of reports, letters and memoranda concerning Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic movements in Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan. The file is divided into a series of sections, each of which contains summaries of reports, letters and memoranda. Prominent correspondents inclu...
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part IV)
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A printed memorandum written and compiled by Adolphus Warburton Moore for the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 12 February 1884. The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part III)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4), dealing ...
