Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’
- Contributor:
- British Embassy (correspondent)
British Legation, Tehran (correspondent)
HM Chargé d'Affaires to Iran (correspondent) - Date:
- 1933/1940
- Description:
- Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, treaties and other papers, reporting on commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Russia. The papers cover: a deterioration in relations between Persia and Russia in 1932-33, culminating in the ban on Russian imports into Persia; the Persian Government’s Foreign Trade Monopoly Act of 1933 (ff 218-223); the Irano-Soviet Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation, agreed between the two nations in 1935; a copy of the treaty in French (ff 101-106); a further printed copy of the treaty in French and Russian (ff 42-85); the termination of the 1935 treaty in 1938; the agreement of a new Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940, created in response to events in the Second World War (ff 3-7).The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull Hugesson, Horace James Seymour; the British Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, Victor Alexander Louis Mallet; the Commercial Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran, Sydney Simmonds; HM’s Ambassador to Russia, the Viscount Chilston, Aretas Akers-Douglas; Noel Hughes Havelock Charles of the British Embassy in Moscow.The file includes several items in French, being newspaper cuttings and texts from the Persian newspapers Le Messager de Teheranand Le Journal de Tehran.1 file (239 folios)Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 240; 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 A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Language:
- English
French
Russian - Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Treaties
Second World War (1939-1945)
Bilateral relations
Trade agreements - Extent:
- 1 file (239 folios)
- Rights:
- Unknown
Public Domain
Open Government Licence
Copyright or data protection restrictions - Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000648.0x00001a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000648.0x00001a_en
IOR/L/PS/12/3471 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers