Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎522r] (1046/1237)

o
AU&Etaii® wr# Uivtlr avtitud« as r«ig<ir4« t ha mTsat
ox i usea aot «iiua«ratd tuy indtoatioag of this
cm.ige iX miiid *>ut X tiil-i.lt that our /kXXlss ax*© how coacynxyd
aoout x'o.-ct for twit Oau^asiaa aralsa mki that gradually they
* XAi iA f v ® vsseroaijan for aoiaels aad foodstuffs
t,saeraixy. yet they are m% themselves squeejinfc ; they
merely prevsiAtiag the Tehran govcmmeat from doing ao
a^u iu this they a 1*0 at oue with the d >verno*wG*aeral • ii©
tola me, ucoIdent&lly, that he had ah arraag^eat with the
wiieryuy ao waeat coaid travel a..ruth past their
mxl*tury poata vhilese it carried his permit mti several lor-
iie^ ofVheat from Mieaeh for Tehran nad in fact seen atooaed
us Kuesiisns oeoadse ais xiermit had act oeea aoolied lor.
tf?- ^ y -* rnrjr ' ,,wdtt<ifr5ai iia ® always oeen at war,-with the Finance
Miiuster, aehren f over the question of wheat, iw objects to
« uth in any large iuaaUty*
00
, •• eat. ra -wSerhaldaa remains i.i whet is
ueooauhg tils? a omul state of Insecurity. Fortu lately* the
ealuli xn too Northwest ap. ear to he quiescent, dee rare. oO.
Austem Aserhaijau ram aloe quiet, hat the oread
queue a ana the dissatisfaction of the poorer classes generally
are a,. s* It is going to he a hard and disturbed winter.
v 4 A lurtixer diaquietiiig sign is the deterioration of the
xeruian police, uac factor 1& their loss of confidence in ti>e
pmseac^ oi the Haasiaus. Their guiding rale seems to bs to
avcud interierwace waerever possicle, andJuc tns thre*-e»ra
trick is cow played without hindrance along tne pavements of
the mala iihlaban, with -ore serious irregularities behind the
scciies.
; at
0 /.
return from moscow,
take up tnc post of
there«
**i+ f i : iXj a a
MX
First
para. 4b. shortly alter his
liulcj enkov transferred t o Angora to
-Secretary in tlxc Soviet Kubasay
iiii> successor, Mx*. Kuznetsov, First Secretary of the
-amDaaa/ at Tehran, arrived on October 12th* fr
a diplomat for 7 months ealy. Before
soviet
^ov has been
a university profess sr.
that
Kdiuiet-
h© was
u.a une in*ei >! val the oosaiilafS'Hwanersl was in the
■ . asarohenko* until recently . ser* His
guiding co.iCwi» ion is that he must discover every few dnya
aomte deep anu sinister plot against the Soviet authorities*
? 0a Th A ?^ a t, : i0 British, through myself and ths
ariau© military and ^ airiofee off leers who have visited Western.
44 ^ inti^lguing with Ui© kurds, also thit Persian
8a00ta ^ everything tne Russians
attempt here,* it is much to be hope a tivit ..un in-netaov will
im time oe ade to judge matters for himself*
4r* dgdeu arrived from Beirut on October /th to
up duty as u.m. Vice-doaeul at Xabrls*
Turkish Oouaul-Owner«1 at laoris and the Turkisn
vonaua ai Eesalen are being transferrea* the f ormer to &n?ora.
Beth ameisls have been ^satisfactoryLellUed
ci view* the von&ul-*&en*ral is giving out that a© Is leaving
aw nig own request on account of ill health and it can ue left
at t nut.
v -i,-r' 3 - - -n*.. From September 22ni<i to September 25th xir.
ilariten, corresnondvat of the Americsa periodical "Time*,
visited fsbs is* tmsrle >lleague says that gr. Al dr it eh •
waxs specially seat from Cairo to make tale visit sad he inter-
pxeis It as the shadow of treat events to corns in this area. -
"Oh