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Coll 29/107(1) 'Hamadan: monthly diary' [‎40r] (80/105)

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The record is made up of 1 file (51 folios). It was created in 26 Apr 1946-8 Jul 1947. 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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BIRASHK, a notoriously corrupt official during his previous stay
in Hamadan, has been mentioned. Consequently the various branches
of the Justice Department, left without a controlling hand, are
merrily pursuing their own devices. Salahi evidently wants to
reduce all the Heads of Departments to a state of subservience,
b}i£-J££hmanzadeh would not submit.
5. v Aghai SADIGHIAN, Manager of the Bank-i-Rehni, has been
replaced by IDMAIL SHAYEGAN, who has had two periods of service with
the imperial Bank of Iran, and is reputed to be a reliable man. ^ -the
Tudeh will no doubt mourn the loss of Sadighian, who is soon going to
Tehran, especially as Shayegan is a man of more liberal ideas.
Sadighian was reported to have contacts with the Democrat forces at
present 50m. from Hamadan, and was in every way a zealous party member.
6 . M. Pankratov and Ml Kochelev, Soviet Vice-Consuls at
Kermanshah, arrived on 9th April, visited Malayer on 10th, and returned
to Kermanshah the following day. They held a reception in a local
hotel, and later interviewed Armenians who had previously registered as
willing to migrate to Soviet Armenia. (see para. 9 Jan. Diary).
Miscellaneous.
7 . Forty members of the Government Hospital went on strike
recently for arrears of pay. Their case was taken up in. an impudent,
fashion by AZARMEHR, nominal Tudeh leader, but he was rebuffed by the
Governor, who himself took the necessary steps to settle their grievance.
8 . GHOLAM HOSSEIN BORBOR, who achieved such notable success
during the time when he was in charge of the administration of the local
orphanage, thereby aroused the anger of the people who formerly had
taken their rake-off^represented by the economy effected by Borbor.
(see para. 12 Feb. Diary). Rather than let him continue, the Mayor
closed down the institution, and its inmates are now swelling the numbers
' of beggars and street-idlers.
British interests.
9 . The Acting Vice-Consul visited Kermanshah on ?th April,
returning on the 9 th.
•jq # Two newspaper correspondents, Mr. Stephen Barber of the News
Chronicle’' and Major Wyndham of the "News of the World’', visited
Hamadan on 14th April en route for Kermanshah. The former returned
with Captain Roosevelt, American Military Attach, Tehran, on 22nd
April, en route for Tehran.
11# Mr. Nevill Barbour, Assistant Director of the B.B.C’s
Eastern Services, spent two days here ( 1 5th-1 6 th April) on his way to
Baghdad.
12. Col. A.R. Watson, of A.D. Hirings and Disposals, Tehran,
arrived on 16th April from Ahwaz. He cleared up all remaining questions
concerning Hirings, and left for Kermanshah on the 17th.
13 . Mr. G.C. Boyle, Acting Vice-Consul, Kermanshah, arrived on
22nd April, and left for Tehran the following day.
(Signed) R.M. Savory.
Acting Vice-Consul,
Hamadan.
3rd May 1946.
Distribution:- Foreign Office
H.M. Embassy, Tehran.
H.M. Consulate-General,
Tabriz.
H.M.
H.M.
Consulate-General,
Ahwaz.
Consulate-General,
Kermanshah.
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The file contains copies of Hamadan monthly diaries from February 1946 to May 1947, by the HM Vice-Consul at Hamadan, sent to the Secretary of State for India by the Foreign Office.

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1 file (51 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 53; 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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