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(Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1889)
CAPITAL (fully paid)
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RESERVE
£760,000
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Branches in Iran :—
Ahwaz
Bushire
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Chief Office in Iran—TEHERAN.
Kerntanshah Reshl
Khurramshahr Shiraz
Meshed Sultanabad
T abriz
Teheran (Bazaar Office')
Zahedan
Branches in Iraq:—Baghdad, Basra.
The Bank transacts Banking, business of every description in and connected
with Iran and Iraq; and in London, grants Drafts, Telegraphic Transfers
and Letters of Credit, and negotiates or collects Bills on Iran and Iraq.
Head Office
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A Weekly Review of the Politics,
Commerce and Finance of Great Britain,
the Balkans, Turkey, Egypt, the Sudan,
Malta, Cyprus, Palestine, Syria, Iraq,
Iran, Arabia, India, Afghanistan, the
Federated Malay States, China and Japan.
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“GREAT BRITAIN AND THE EAST,”
133/136, High Holborn,
London, W.C.I.
Editorial Director: Sfr Alfred Watson.
Managing Editor: E. A. Mackenzie-Bell.
No. 1579—VOL. LVII. THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1941 Established 1911
The aims of this Journal are the interpretation of Great Britain to the East, and of the East to Great Britain,
and the promotion of British Trade.
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS
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NOTES OF THE WEEK...................
LEADING ARTICLES—
The Churchill Broadcast ........
Protecting the Oil .............
SPECIAL ARTICLES—
Nazi Menace in Iran. By Kenneth
Williams ...
Germans Striving with all their
Might. By J...”
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“...Morning Post ”
For any neutral country strategically situated as Turkey
is there are almost certain to be shocks while the war lasts.
Two dangers to Turkey’s frontiers have been removed by
the settlement of the Iraqi and Syrian incidents. As regards
Iran, the Turks are well aware that the Anglo-Soviet
action is not against the Iranians, and involves no menace
to them, but is aimed at the Nazis who were endeavouring
to create a situation in Iran similar to that for which they
were reponsible in Iraq.
It will occasion no surprise if it be true that Von Papen
advised Iran through the Iranian Minister at Ankara to
prolong the negotiations until the Germans had captured
Odessa. It would be quite in keeping with the Nazi
methods of intrigue in the Middle East. The Turks may
express sympathy with Iran, but they know that had they
been in the place of the Allies they would have been com-
pelled to take the same line.
Balkan Unrest
The increasing unrest in the Balkans is another factor
that may conduce...”
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“...attention amid greater events. But any repetition of
those happenings during the present conflict would touch
far more deeply the whole of the operations in the Middle
East.
There has been no haste about Russian and British
action. For months past the Iranian Government has been
fully informed as to the anxieties excited by the large
number of Germans who have filtered into the country.
Iran had been given the fullest opportunity of seeing
the nature of German intrigue in the adjoining territory
of Iraq and the consequences that followed upon Nazi
activities there. She had the most material interest in
keeping on good terms with the British Government, but
failed to take the steps that would have made her professed
neutrality real. She has nothing to fear from the occupa-
tion by the Allied Powers, Who seek neither territorial
aggrandisement nor economic privileges. If fear of
Germany has prompted Iranian evasiveness, she may
have cause for gratitude to those who have relieved her of
a painful...”
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“...aegis of Riza Shah
Pahlavi, and, alike in Britain and Russia, sincere hopes
that that regeneration would proceed in peace, with Iran
growing stronger all the while. The Saadabad Pact,
linking the four Middle Eastern countries, Afghanistan,
Iran, Iraq, and Turkey, was cordially welcomed, and
there were those who believed that the whole Middle East
was destined for such a phase of tranquil development as
it had not enjoyed for centuries.
Nazi Intrigues
Those hopes were belied by Nazi Germany. First in
Iraq, then in Syria, and most recently in Iran, the Nazis
have sought to shatter Middle Eastern stability. Regard-
less of the sufferings necessarily encompassing those whom
they called their friends, they forced Britain to take active
measures in Iraq and Syria. Defeated there, they con-
centrated on Iran, whence, in a last desperate fling, they
hoped to embroil the whole Middle East.
The lessons abundantly to be learned from experience
elsewhere were not, seemingly, to be le'arned in Teheran...”
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“...to accom-
modate a hundred persons. When the club is well estab-
lished, cinemas and other shows will be arranged.
A club for Indian soldiers at Kuala Lumpur is also under
contemplation.
Greater Stability in Iraq
In a dispatch to the Daily Telegraph Mr. Arthur Merton,
who is in Baghdad,- says: “ The new Cabinet appears to
be establishing itself, and to be eliminating the reactionary
elements. Iraq, which in May was Nazified, is now resum-
ing a normal atmosphere.
In this the Allied success in Syria, Turkey’s firmness,
Germany’s difficulties in Russia, and Russo-British
co-operation have all clearly played a part. The Regent
has also contributed largely, and the work of the British
Ambassador, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, has been a great
factor in restoring confidence.
“ Economically, Iraq is suffering mainly through over-
seas trade difficulties. She has lost Japan as a buyer of
her cotton crop, but it is anticipated that India will be able
to absorb this. The spending capacity of the British...”
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“...fourteenth century, has been expropriated by
the Germans. The monks have been expelled and an property
confiscated.
The Turkish. Ambassador in Berlin recently saw Hitler at his
field headquarters. The meeting has evoked considerable interest
among observers at Ankara.
Several sections of the Aleppo-Mosul Railway, destroyed during
the military operations in Iraq and Syria, have now been restored
and passenger and goods traffic has been resumed.
The trade talks between the Turkish authorities and delegates
of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation have been
resumed. They had not been proceeding regularly following the
campaigns in Iraq and Syria.
Palestine’s Income-Tax Ordinance, which became law last week-
end, is based on the principle of generous exemptions.
The Imperial Government has agreed’ to purchase from Cyprus
this year’s crop of carobs, or locust beans. The crop is the Island’s
main export, and amounts to over £100,000 in value.
INDIA AND BURMA
The question of taking disciplinary...”
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