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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [510r] (1022/1237)
The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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___________ remairied cala( and thrfugh the first half
of the month, fhe Tabriz distVfgt free of snow. This
sort of weather falsifies all forecasts; the clean roads and
uard fields of Azerbaijan would have been ideal for military
operations - if the Germans had got through.
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^ i.u... .i.u^T uxvG . The peasants are, of course, gloomy but others
a^ree that no serious damage will have been done to the winter
sowings provided always tiiat there is still a sufficient fall of
snow to replenisn the springs and feed the streams in the spring
and early summer.
^ Mr. Rex Vivian, the ^Uaerican representative
of the Minister of Supply, arrived in Tabriz on January 10th.
he is the great white hope, he displaced Porouzan, the ob
structive anu inefficient director of Finance, and is now trying
to put order into the department of Finance and the wheat
Monopoly department, he discovered chaos and a complete lack of
inter departmental cooperation. I drew his attention to the
lact that 'Whereas there is much wheat at Marageh, Government
lorries carrying goods there have been sent empty away from
tnere; that Government lorries have been carrying wheat north
wards to Tabriz from depots on the Tehran road just when we so
urgently wish to load southbound lorries at these depots. He
is 1 lading for himself many other glaring deficiencies; for
instance, no serious effort had been made to provide sufficient
sacks.
I stated in a telegram some time ago that numbers of
U.K.C.C. lorries had driven south empty past dumps of wheat on
the Tehran road. The Governor-General gave me confirmation of
this when ne gave me details of the wheat stored at Buatanabad
and other points. Lack of sacks was probably one difficulty,
but he admitted that the Finance Department had feared to let
this wheat go south until they could be sure of making the
landlords disgorge further stocks to meet trie needs of Tabriz
ana to fulfil the contract with the Russians. (Actually, the
f inance Department had no intention of making the landlords
disgorge.) He saia himself that he was in favour of letting
wheat go south as soon as the existence of sufficient stocks
to meet ail local obligations had been confirmed.
FSEGo. POL. DEIff. now U p o Vivian to do this. I personally
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.
The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (615 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 617; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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