Coll 28/44 ‘Persia. Internal. Fars affairs & Shiraz situation’ [‎16r] (31/843)

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No. 64/211/44. '
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^Fitish Embassy,
Tehran,
2nd June, 1944.
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(Dear Caroe), ' - \ m
eoillO nsis'io'i srij- ol airll lo aiiq-oo nii I
n n >!„ n ilo? Se n e /A r yo^TS'ipaftrwrrt^Chancery
_D._^ .c • 4i j'.. - .1/44 of May let about Nwlr Khan Qaahgal. ndncery
. , , e two pen-ploturea of Kasir Khan by officers who hart a<»«,
him recently were sent on for what they were worth not *1 a
Picture but aa representing points of yiefabout a’perso^Utv of L
generaf l atti‘nL m t Sht ^ av ®. been better if we had referred to our
lo??e? a «vs th t 0V, ^ S the - aah eai tribal leaders, but, as your
March - aet lorth ln our letter to Shiraz of 35t
o^ to„„ lctter »4 eh * thou ^ h signed by Somers Cocks in rny absence
0I } passed and indeed in part drafted bv ne "•hnt
stands. revertheless we have to face the fact that for a longtime I
o come i,he j/ersian Army will be unable to control the bi^ger^tr* bes
ire are t^ko* ^ ^ w ^_ nu3t a policy of conciliation unless
we arc to keep considerable bodies of troops in the oil ht^c,
C K be Utilised ~i a p u lioy to h* av oided both because the troops
be balsnoirt 1 ^ i ? Wh *f e or d «aobillsed, and also because it would
I _ lari< ' ci t V the retention of at least as many Soviet troons in the
I Wp^on” Pr0 fe n f^? n ° f M the P r n ? nt nalalBe 7 caused by^hfR^siJ
ment to deal’with t ?, try f '° induce tbe Persian Govern-
bv r»e>ia< t ^ ie tri :>e8 policy since they cannot quell them
wnnirt'^'n ' h i S l ' !leanB encouraging the elements which oppose such
the^trihi»a a ° ,0 t*t? 8 * ^ l ** 1 *’ 8ettllTl 2 tribal land cases seeing that
the tribes get their share of rationed goods, and so on.
tVi-am « would be pleasant to reward our oldest friends by giving
them a preference in visits from the mobile dispensary, but the iss^
is not so easy. Gardener arranged before he went on leave f hat the
dispensary, which is to go back to the -ashgai with one or two
military liaison officers in attendance, will then go m tn tbp
Ahmad with an introduction from Nasir to his ally Abdullah Ihan
Zarghampur. It seems unlikely that we could havf got the dis^nsar^-
into 3oir Ahmad country by any other means, and in view of the ^ -
Iranir^rfi °r tr ™^lty in the 3oir yvhmad country to tie Anglo-
Iranian Oil company, we must not lose this chance.
v °: ric f r3 like Ciarrod, who run the mobile dispensary, are
orientals a th^f A 0 ex t e f laace of Kast, to idealise the first
ronsntfo h, peoially wh<s ' n the meeting takes place in a
in che a r° lapa ? le s b7 Crrant ' of the Oriental Secretariat! who will keer
' 1 they meetf 117 tende:loy on Oarrod-s part to idealise thf tr^al ruffiaus
Sir Olaf Caroe, K.C.I.K., C. 3. T., ( at>D ^ H * W * BDIXARD * j
Secretary to the Government of India,
v ern al Affairs Department,
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