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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [118r] (236/1237)
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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tn&Lu&v lv<36 to a eoaclusion; a uim|awfraiieatf 4§^| tlJere ie still a v-ar
oxi uaa seeped into tj^e bazaar and • vhe--'^ti^^' ^.4 pry -tn/ bueliiees aee/tis
li ;ely to bo prolor^ed; the Tadeh xarty baa turned Irou atta *8 on
r. actiooaxv landlords* tribal chiefs aid iiiaist officials to
ch tipi xilag, in a ~uiet and peaceiul manner* the cause of tne unenpl ^y-
ed; and such reports as there are from Rezaieh and *iahabad sap that
all is quiet there* Religious affaire have offered several occasions
for intemational contacts ana exprceeione oi good-will in the visits
of various dualiai and Christian church officials and dignitaries*
104. p eA'si un . ^licials . The u rest ion wnetner the i ormer Ustandar of
the Tuira istan, »ehdi haovar (Vucuuq as Saltansh) shall return to
Tabriz seems to bearousi .g more interest in Tehr&fc than here.
Citizens of Tabriz shrug their shculders et the charges oi corruption
».kUCi & a z ,ainet iij.;iv iii tne iA.£i^ 1 is * and i ti j dou.>» u * (<he c ue . j i iu ^iiethe r he
uid or dia iiot make 750,000
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10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
out oX tiic purchase of the site
end buildings for the irnuiioipal hospital will not really affect any
decision that nay be taken about hie return*
Ucrhang Ramal, chief of Ge t idermerie in estern Azerbaijan, has
been xranefc rred to Kerman shah. Aft^r manrgin^ to reiacin s ^ r s ona
iA' u mu to the Russisu* autu rities for tiiree v cars, Ijc slipped up by
showing to > greet an interest in the ab Ttive attempt of the Iranian
Ariijty to occupy mai-abad at the end of march.
10b. u,_u;ms.^uulc.; :..al ^.u-uii .s . The Miiiiotcr of the Interior
has not yet made his selection of nine members iro , tne list sunaitted
on x*iay Ith. inei^e is good reason to oelieve that ^he central Govei'n—
merit is not pleased at trie high proportion of fudeh candidates
jt o v •.
rnoz^Qeneral at Tabriz
,ed. me report oays turn tnc ...stin e
receive a a tsle^raia j rora the Ministry of the Interior about the 27tn,
May, informing him taat tns elections warn c nsidcred irregular as thej
had been neld before the proper ti >e ant in the absence of a Governor—
General. Gertaia mercnp..ts and notables of Tabriz are said to nave
telegraphed to Tehran complaining that the elections weru xaked in the
Tudeh ir* lave recej . i x I .. t . , they e oo..celled.
These reporta arc not confirmed by the Acting Governor-General.
105. velebr ation.of Vic^oxv in ^urooe . Four further receptions were
held in the fortnight following V.K. Bay. The Soviet Gonsul-General
gave a party soon after his return from Baku in the premises of the
lx*an .-Soviet Gu tural Society j tins ucting Ghiei oi Municipality gave
another and he was tollowed by the landlords of Tabriz and by tne
merchants, inevitably the proceedings began to assume the character
of a rite, mci after many attempts to rin t the changes on a rvstrioted
theme, ev n the Persie.ne began to have difficulty in finding something
to sey. General Glinsky, however, contributed a fFosh, brie! end
telling speech on most occasions, and the American and mritish Consuls
LOUiiu oppor*U:^ty to r--i'iimct the Iraniiins tnat although they were
legitimately celebrating ae victory, they hud n ither still to win.
107. h>u^in r . ... The members of the Delegation which went to
Baku to take part in the celebration of the 25th. Anxiversaiy of the
Azerbaijan Soviet Republic (last Diary, para 96) all returned looking
us though they had enj yed a good holiday in the sun. They had all
been impressed and norm mor. so than the Dii’ector of Agricu ture,
Ismail Bazurgani. Belore this excursion he was ubie to utter < little
rreach, but now, no matter in what foreign Isngu&^e he is addressed,
nc rej litn. in the three word# of Russian m jro igi oh with hiau
Gome oi tixe delegates complained privately that before they went they
had been told that they could not bo allowed to take any Mercian money
into the Soviet Union, but that all their needs would ce su plied at
/Baku.
K*. ML MTU
1UUL1945 I
INDIA OPTIC
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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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