Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [‎474r] (950/1237)

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ior Taaran aaa in &ezai*& it was even said tiiat tne Husaians
•« 4 ^aa iiTok&Q. -Uj a&ulto in order tci f&ud that people* Tiidx*a have
run too, cojaparlfeons j&t^een tuu state ox plenty In Azerbaijan
coap&r&d with the hungry south* nut people in general 'snow
siuitu «toii taat Kuasinas iaav# had sotae 4,000 tons of wheat
which, hue it remained hare, would have averted the shortage,
tuid the^ uisa snow tuat whey are ouyixig wheat at various points
where they nave troops* iney kjijfc wnat ^aice" got at the crop*
^vr 1 1 . i tried recently in a oienoraadun on propaganda to
o*iiina tuu ru.. alt,., we ore ^ettin* in tnis country. It is only
woo easy now to see .naiat tony are. ^e lay on more propaganda
tiion any other country and it it* against us that the rersians are
hitting hack. Apparently the Euasiruia arc nittin^ back too,
Baking oompariaoxhs aoout conaitions in the ax-itisn and Russian
zones, iherc Is no single jv sin^l© explaaatim for our unpopu
larity , cut 1 do suggest that we iiave been trying to inmn do^n the
, ersian taro at proria^aida uasuited to tne a i^estiye capacity and
that the . ersian stoaach has turned ani thrown it back. In a nut
shell, -we have tried to ao thing© with propaganda which propaganda
can * i achieve, while for purposeu proper t 3 propaganda we nave
teiiuea to use mats rial which moral an© e an * t ascimilste.
, •.A.w iluti . i he Aao i ican Vice -dona
©i^hiaent of beautifully produceu books
a hd in hi s op 1 hi on jul te useless he re .
aepartieent of the Amez lean legation in
little world of its own ai«i rel ute© to
ate here says about local conditlpha*
rl has just received a con- |
ana pictures, ail ia french ;
He says that the propaganda
iehraa whirls around la a
listen t3 what the Coisul-
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54- j. ha a.v oy.a d are o t ox sorts, out of temper * Thu capture of <
the ha rath Line sweeteacd the atnosuniere a trifle, cut it will
ta< v iauch more t ^ew tixem back t the nappy mood they were in for j
tiji L>X'xCi fc^wli uxter fi*e ij x-^ixawui'c ox thu ia—*uov iet yuo»> 1 asu
year. ,«e nave got t » u o i v some now, ana me an t lee it seems to me
the u«wt service we can render them and ourselves is to endure
th^ir preheat sulky mood as ue©t we can. It must hurt then a lot
to be on tne delexisive a 0 uiii alter the hi c n hopes they had of
^©weeping into Rums id.© this spring, to renounce a vista of balfcaa
possibilities. They are Had nig their ieval and it will make ior \
better eventual coo erst ion mat thsy should no so.
Gb. ihe .vfieric.an unit sent here to
vehicles ior Russia uau withdrawn to lehran*
overhaul new
The Clover no r-dener al cams to see me on
m&rcu *2§iE Vnd talked at length about his ideas for the collection
of next narvesu lor Unu be nefit at . u i^cla os a whole , and f r the
ext*;..-nun of the frauenise so that there might be & more represen
tative and more competent g .vurn^eat In Tehran after tne ©lectio ;s.
ac says he is submitting these ideas to the Prime Minister and
itehitiae ne as/>.ed tnat i give him my support if I thought he was
doing his best, he is feeling the need ior friends and he was,
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