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irom Ahram to Chughadnk in orker his rresoeots
to hd,! on the return journey. RaiV^i^fyfd^erf! how-
a ' » late to meet Nnslr IChan*
VI - P-OBLIC RELATIQTJS
iiu A s “ ccoss £ u } ev ®ning "Social'', arranged «t the request
nf-din* n rab9rB 0 n O Ju e vT Reading Room c ^ ub « was held at th<J
Consul^-'id 0 ^' 0 ---? t -' N ^-' nber '■ It .wns attended by
the town,
by moat of the leading officials and merchants of
4°4. During the tour of H.M'sCConsul,'to Sa'adabad. Malik
Mansur .Jinn presented 2500 kilos of dates for distribution to
Consulatetrlhnt 0n tho 3 “* e occasioffci' 3 °
Consul distri-buted 400 yards of A.P.R.H,F. cloth in the villape
of Sa adabad, Darwahi, and Deh Kuhnoh, ^
405. Photo Build-ups on the subject of Irrigation nnd^flm-
Sfl? °f Cultivation in Britain were put on view at
intjLp ? du ^‘ n ^r, th< : Cons ^ 1 ^ visit, and aroused considerable
E^meer-in-Charge has asked for a similar set
of rholographs for permanent display in the Irrigation office
mp+*hi to encourage the adoption of improved agricultural *
methods in the Newly-irrigated area near Sa'adabad.
h? r 6 i n H u M 4 S 2 0 f lsUl . t: ? ok the opportunity of his tour to Ganaveh
by launch to take with him the P.R.B. cinema. By dint of
?narHnf fhp J; aUnch close inshore it proved possible, without un
. hea Y^ generator, to supoly power to the orojector
and so to give the first cinema show which has ever been seen
r?™u n ? VG n # Th ? P r °g r amme which included "The Left of the
Line (a Documentary of the victories achieved by the British
u rn,\ m northern France), .and a Pop-eye episode were greeted
with enthusiastic applause and cries of "Zindehbad Britannia".
£ loth > ln lengths of 3 yards each, were
di ._.nbuted, in the Consul's presence, to the poor of the town
w ;' ^r. fabibzadeh administered the medicines suoplied by 1
the A.P.R.R. Fund. Photo Build-ups illustrating the British
An.i-Locust campaign in other parts of Southern Persia etc.,
,vj re displayed in the town, and a considerable amount of
printed publicity was distributed.
VII. LOCAL OPINION" *
40S. The refusal of the Soviet Government to consider the
Persian Government's request to be allowed to send troops to
Azerbaijan has filled the people of Bushire with gloomy fore
bodings. The news of the despatch of the British Note to the
Kremlin, however, produced a very good effect and the British
are, for once, regarded as having taken this action out of
friendship for Persia, rather than merely from motives of self,
intere st.
40... Nasir Khan Qashqai is believed locally to have visited
Bushire, (paragraph 401 above refers) in order to assure H
Consal-uontral that the Qashqai tribes would, if necessary', *
fight against the Russians. The Bushiris believe him to have
sent a telegram containing a similar assurance to the Shah.
410, The people of Bushire, who (it seems) measure the sta
bility of the British Cabinet by the behaviour of most Persian
Cabinets, which are blown away by the first breath of dissent,