891.51A/534
Press Release Issued by the Department of State, November 30, 1942
American Financial Mission to Iran
The Government of Iran is engaging in the United States an American financial mission to assist in the reorganization and administration of the Iranian national finances. Dr. Arthur C. Millspaugh has been appointed to head the mission, with the title of Administrator General of Finances, and is now engaged in selecting a group of eight assistants. He expects to depart for Iran as soon as the membership of the group has been completed.
The work of the mission will cover virtually all fields of Iranian governmental finance, and, in addition to Dr. Millspaugh, will include experts in the following lines:
- Taxation
- Accounting, budgetary control and auditing
- Customs, tariffs and trade
- General economic matters
- General financial matters
Dr. Millspaugh headed a similar mission to Iran during the period 1922–1927, and in 1911 an American financial mission under Mr. W. Morgan Shuster spent several months in Iran.39
[Correspondence in respect to some of the less important Iranian requests for missions and advisers is not printed. The Iranian Government formally requested two American specialists in entomology, a specialist in cultivation of rubber, a Public Health specialist for the position of Permanent General Director of the Iranian Ministry of [Page 263] Public Health, a specialist for the reorganization of Iranian municipalities, an adviser to the Iranian National Bank, a professor to teach the mechanics of the agricultural machines in college and to instruct in the repair and upkeep of farm implements, a specialist for drilling artesian wells, ten engineers for agricultural irrigation, and an American to lead the Boy Scout movement in Iran.]
- For correspondence regarding this mission, see Foreign Relations, 1911, pp. 679 ff.↩