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Coll 28/112B Persia. Tabriz. Monthly dispatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan, & misc: reports.’ [‎176r] (352/451)

The record is made up of 1 file (223 folios). It was created in 18 Mar 1946-16 Mar 1948. 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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Oon^ul v:oul<5 be allowed to travel in the district until there
a settlement with Tehran. «skei for the reason he replir d that
’'it was not in the interests of the N r 'ti~nal Government". r 'irhavsr1 f
tackled on the same sub.l^ct by the United States Consul, said that
consuls were free to travel 1 here thev l^ked in their districts,
^ hut if the-' insisted on dcinpr so the National Government vrruld not
a sine ^esnonsibllity for their n rot action. Both took nains to
no^nt out that, of course, the came rul« ar^lled to the ^^ian
G ~*ul-Gereral. The latter, however, ^eeiTfS to have un’e^^tood
it other^dse, tho^oh he has he'm heard to emress the on inion that
the time is not onno^time fbr travelling. H.«. Consul has fo nd
out by t that the rida’is on the check-posts at the
exit* of the City have orders not to let him nass ' ithout a nenr.it
and as the National Gov^nroont steadily refuse to errant him a nenr-it
he is in practice confined to the City li* its. The prohibition
on Con uls* movements does not, apparently, apply to din^ct
joume r s to Tehran.
The Dei ocrats* tre traent of the British and U. 3. Consuls
is, of course, a reflection of the resentment they feel at vhat
they suppose to be Briti^i and American support for the Tehran
" eact ion<jries M in the Security Council, pishavari is aware
of the propaganda value of correct behaviour, but he either cannot
check the ualice of his colleagues or cannot resist the temptation
to inflict petty annoyances which ho can ait rwards saooth over
with an apology. <« typical instance was the publication during the
month by the Azerbaijan ne^vspaper of a ridiculous but malicious
story of the meric an Consul’s h-ving tried to bribe a policeman
at the telegra h office.
78. Press and Propa^ nc^a. After Ion- silence, much news has gone
out 0 ? Azerbaijan thi- lo^t ' onth. Tabriz radio, which broadcasts
in Turki, Persian and French, ivS hea^d in London a* *'rell as in
T^h-^an.
Abo\it the middle of the tronth 46 % Goodwin of the ns '-ociated
Press and Mr*. Souki of the United arrived in Tabriz *nd have
despatched a number of articles. The Democrats seem to hav* be^n
annoyed at their arrival, accused tb^. in th * nevs>paner of
photographing military subjects anf' c anned tbem that they tpuI’ be
considered as soles, and no T'esr'meibility would be taken for
anything that happened to the • Th«se tvo corussnondents not
able to travel about the province, but being, with K. Jekiel, the
first foreign correspondents (other than i^ssian) to enter Azerbaijan
since 1941, they hav* found the journey ficiently rewarding.
Their visit has, however, coincided ^ ith (perhaps stimulated) some
violently anti-*nerican articles in the Azerbaijan press. Great
Britain and Turkey are castigated en passant, but the U. S. is na-r
he major villain of the piece.
79• 7lcoory Celebration. The Irano-Soviet Cultural Society held
a meetiMon^SyytirrTo celebrate the Victory over the Axis. Dr.
javid, then acting pritae minister, made the principal speech of
the evening* a speech from which it appeared that Russia von single-
handed not only the war against Germany but that against Japan
also, and in which Britain's r^le wa: c nfined to having been bombed.
&O. Deraocrat Yo uth Movement. The parades of small boys erwed with
ooden -illes which have attracted the attention of cocr»esnon ehts
so m to have originated in spontaneous irritation of the People's
Army, but the Youth k^vemont is now being egularly organized under
the Part/, a newspaper called "Javanlar" (Young People) a reared
first on 18tb• May. It consists so far of only a single she^t
and conta ns nothing but party ~**e.
Brit ish Consul at e-Gan ^rol,
Tabriz.
“fly 31 st., 1346 .
J.’?. w»ll.
acting Consul-Gprinral.

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Monthly reports submitted by the British Consul General at Tabriz, concerning events in Tabriz and Azerbaijan. The reports, which span the period January 1946 to January 1948, cover: the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Azerbaijan following the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran during the Second World War; the short-lived existence of the Azerbaijan People’s Government, declared in November 1945; the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan and its leader Ja’far Pishevari; the Iranian Government’s reassertion of control in Azerbaijan in 1947. The reports include sections describing: the general situation (with a detailed chronology of events given for reports covering January 1947 to May 1947); the activities of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan; military operations; internal security; trade and industry; finance; communications; agriculture; Kurdish affairs; Armenian affairs; British, Soviet and American [USA] interests, including propaganda. The file includes an English translation of an agreement between representatives of the Government of Iran and the Azerbaijan People’s Government, the original of which was published in the newspaper Azerbaijan on 16 June 1946 (ff 165-167).

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 (223 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 225; 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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