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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [50r] (100/1237)
The record is made up of 1 file (615 folios). It was created in 16 Dec 1941-6 Mar 1946. 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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j|or« tihi fccfel aiftoaom;
powers
7)mi party la eliminating potential schlstmatice* All Amir Khlzl,
A^Hai Oiyaml aaa Dr« Jaudat, all leaders of the former fucleh organiz-
ati >n who did not join this new Party, have left for Tehran* The
Tudeh office furniture has now been removed to democratic Headquarters
"Ase baijan” declares that no extremists or dlvaraiai^rloB will be
admitted to the Party Conference, particularly th^ae beJ^eW |that
Azerbaijan should be entirely Independent apart £'
demanded by the Party.
At the time oi vrltingf .elegates have arrived
province and arv still coming in from the remoter
declares that the Conference has been given “full
a provincial Anjuz&sn, and some delegates have beet haard
the government of Azerbaijan ^111 ‘'look vaiy different? 9 . 4 L ^hre ej weslcs
US# On the aft cm un oi -er 2 nd. a preli»inOf f ' i 1 ibVtrtTrE r ^?>r ths
Oonference was held in the Perdowsi Hchool, attended by various Persia
Officials* Nothing specific seems to have been dank* There was also
an open-air nesting addressed by the Deputy ^ir Jaufar Pishivarl, but
this dwiridled away sc rapidly that he quickly announced hia intention
of adjourning it to the Aunicipality, -.here he failed to appear* That
evening, dels rates from Khosrovshahr, 25 miles «sat of Tabriz, announo
ed their intention of going home to more esnsibl« pursuits and, when
they found that no transport could bt had, roundly abuaed the Party
wnich hau lured them to Tabriz.
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199* n\rfn Si i\i ra . The former Tabriz Armenian ^chool, now
operated by the Education De artmant for both Auslid and Armenian
pupils, was recently invaded oy young Armenians who ejected the care
taker, saying that it was time to revert to the old order. In reply
to e pretest from the Acting Uatond&r, the Armenian Archbishop is said
to have d 1 solaimed ell responsibility for the incident.
On September 25th., the Democratic Party paper published a
message from the ’’Azerbaijan Armenian National Ocuncll*» stating that
after years of oppression during which the Armenian language has been
buppresced and Armenian schools closed it is ready to support the
Democratic Party In its demand for a provincial Anjunan. The message
is signed by 17 Tabriz Armenians, including two of the richest merch
ants and the owner of the Kuosiaa-sponsored bookshop.
POD# Ths id^Viin Incident * Of the two Judicial invest inters, Hunari
has r?turned to' Tehran and Jiddi is again hex^e. Jiadi complains that
all the Tudeh leaders implicated have left or arc oilurul^c unavailabl
ana that hie enquiries sxa &t a standetill*
201* Consular Movement a . ^ne of the two Consuls at the Turkish
Oonuulate-&«nir&L Tabris, A. Server kii’Cul, has returned fra.i leave
in ietanbul. He reports that the hovi^t Commanu,^nt in 4aku was ’*very
X)olite n , and tiiat he hac no difficulty in gstting scro&s the frontier
at Bazergan*
Mr. Qulyuahov, who succeeds Mr. Ivan Op it sky at the Soviet
Consulate-Ureneral here, has previously served as uecretary of the
Isfahan Cfvxeulate.
202. British officiala . Mr* Hid^ell, Acting brlthsh Jounoil
Heprctentative in Iran, visited Tabriz bet'^cen -eptuaber 50th. and
October 2nd., when he left for Hamadan ana IWrmanahan.
203. hurul^h Affairs . Further inlor^atiotn iu no;> available about a
tour of Persian Kurdistan made by AaJor-beneral Atakl&ixev ■ alias
Salim Mtikhln - Diary Ho. 14, para 173, and par 197 above), during
August. Htf sscompanied by bloutenant Kamaz All off, Oom ad ant
at JTianduub, caiother officer and a Euseisn civilian* It was
Ataklshc v who had ecocmpanled Dasi Aohaaed, Amir Asad of the DehboukrJ
and ithsr Kurdish chiefs on e trip to Baku early in the Dec nation.
Turing his tour, the General called on Amir Asad at his home on
the hukan road, and asked him why ho had not visited the kusalaas vex?
iauch lately, and not even JoAncd the Komals. Amir A&ad said he was
too buey ^ith his villages ior that* eort of political stuff. Atakiehf
/then
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Reports and correspondence concerning the internal situation in Azerbaijan and Tabriz during the region’s occupation by Soviet military forces, part of the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia [Iran] in the Second World War. The file chiefly comprises reports, submitted on a monthly (and later fortnightly) basis by the British Consul-General at Tabriz, reporting on events in Azerbaijan and Tabriz. Reports up to July 1942 are printed, while subsequent reports are typewritten. The typewritten reports are organised under subheadings that vary from one report to the next, but generally cover: weather; agriculture, locust movements, food supply and reports of hoarding; consular tours; the activities of consular colleagues and counterparts; local government, local politics, and elections; Kurdish affairs, including events at Rezaieh [Orūmīyeh]; Armenian affairs; public order; the activities of the Persian, Russian and United States military; trade, commerce and labour; transport and communications, including convoys, and the activities of the United Kingdom Commercial Corporation (UKCC); propaganda. From late 1944 onwards the reports increasingly focus on rising political and social unrest in Azerbaijan, which would eventually culminate in the Iran-Azerbaijan crisis of 1946. These later reports focus on the emergence and activities of new political parties (including the Tudeh Party and the Democratic Party), new political newspapers, and Soviet activities in Azerbaijan.
The file also includes: correspondence sent by the British Ambassador in Tehran, Reader William Bullard, forwarding the Tabriz Consul’s reports with comments to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; note sheets covering numerous reports, giving a précis of the report’s contents; the translation of a report by the Persian Minister for War, secretly obtained by British sources, describing military and political conditions at Rezaieh, dated 17 May 1942 (ff 560-564); a report of a visit to Rezaieh in February 1945, compiled by the British Consul-General at Tabriz (ff 147-154).
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 (615 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 617; 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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- Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’
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- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:69v, 71r:136v, 138r:150v, 150ar:150av, 151r:194v, 196r:197v, 199r:300v, 302r:420v, 424r:560v, 565r:575v, 577r:581r, 583r:616v, back-i, back
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