Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎113r] (226/1237)

and astern men at note of all a&es, with si^J fodtf VaiiVaaes ht
tontgo^ery, .nukov, -is^miower end D« datre dje Tassigny in tjaa most
proiui.iaat place# The pictures, it is said* ape to reya.in. ^4 band
will play regularly in the garden and there r.JLll bi ! b^lng^^tches
and other sporting events, finally, it is rumoured, the charge for
uuiuiasio.i v.ill be raised from bO dinars to one rial*
The siii men accused of assault ..gainst Soviet students, (Diary
ho. 9, para 107) ar* still beln 0 detained by the Soviet Military
.. ^lice pending completion oi th^ investigation*
The son of the labrii- mullah hi,,a- ul Islam who was host to
the -ueik.* ul Islam of Baku on his recent visit (Last Diary* Para
107;, discussing his venerable guest, said that his father hod
^Uu&tioned the bneikh ul Islam closely as to the state of Islam,
and particularly the conditions under which mullaas lived in the
do vie t Republic* Ins Sheikh ul Islam sumasd it up by sayings f, Y ou
know, for the last fifty years all we mullahs hove been respectable
beggars**
119. nrneni,..^ hYai- u » It is not yet kno..n here what waa the re8i2
of the election recently neld in hohaiadEin, doviet Armenia, for
a now Gatholicoa ol all the Armenians* The last delegate to pass
through Tabriz on his way to Acumiadsia was apparently the
representative of the Armenians in Greece* He \vas late, it is
said, because the Tur ;sih Uovermaent had refused to allow him to go
the shorter way through the Dardanelles* Commenting on the
assembly of Delegates for the election, the Chaldean Archbishop of
Aezuieh - v.no, of course, has little affection for Armenians - said
that the Armenian Archbishop of Tabriz did not go to no. miadzin
not because of his 82 years, but because he is a declared Dashnak
who would not da^e shov his face inside Soviet uusaia*
Tac interest aroused by the elections has stimulated a great
deal of talk soOut Armenia*s ^historic claims ' on a large elice of
what is now Turkish territory* The impr.s. ion is that the Russians
are sympathetic towards the Armaniah claim, and, judging from his
own conversation, the Soviet CoucUl-Greneral here has done nothing
to correct this imprest ion*
A rowdy ai-ray between Armenian and Muslim youths in the garde
of the Armenian blub in the middle of June led to the Darden's bein
closed for a few days* fne affair was of no importance, however,
ann the garden is now open again*
120. xudcu an...; fraue cnU^ . There* has been a little more agitation
on the theme of unemployment, but there have been no more public
demonstrations. Perhaps, all the unemployed having now been
registered, ana nothing saving been done about it, enthusiasm has
waned. Tne customary telegrams have, however, been sent to the
rrime Minister, whom the Tudeh rress denooaces, snd the Prime
minister is believed to have replied soothingly that unemployment i
one of the first Questions with which his new cabinet will deal whe;
it gets itself formed.
Besides the Prime minister, the Freedom Front press has had a
tilt at the British authorities* it has published (June 14th*) a
long letter from Abbas Tabatabayi, formerly Faraandar of Shahabad
in the Fifth Ustan, in which he attribut-s his suspension by the
Minister of the Interior to the macninations 3f H.m. Consul at
Xwrmanshah and Colonel Pitt, whom he accuses of undue interference
in the affairs of the Ustan. The naivete with which this gentleman
puts his charges may bo judged from his concluding sentence* "In
my 20 years of service as a Farmandar I have not seen the Russian
Consular authorities interfere in the internal affairs of Iran"*
There must have been a despera e deaxlh of space in all the other
papers of Iran to lead tide writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. to seek publication of this remar
in a Tabriz newspaper*
The Provincial Committee of the Azerbaijan Yudeh Party has
published a telegram sent to the Central comuittee of the Tudeh
Party on June 14th., proposing to hold a demonstration throughout
Iran against the new Prime Minister. The Azerbaijan Party, it
declares, is ready to send "thousands of men"•
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