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Coll 28/112A ‘Persia. Tabriz – Monthly despatches of internal situation in Azerbaijan & misc. reports.’ [495r] (992/1237)
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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■iVui-iiX -i- -iv i. iiu
2 i\JK 1945 ♦
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lv3th to 51st January.
12. lijeranae a brief blizzard on January loth and
then mid weather again until January 50th when snow fell, three
inches in Tabriz but mor© in the surrounding districts.
Ah* xdub iir. Vivian, tte Aiuerican now in charge of
<ih© finance md subsidiary departiaents, has been <reating a healthy
commotion. After visiting two of the iiaportant grain producing
areas, ^ara^eh and Ardebil, he pronounced that the Minister of
bupply had Miisled us, after his visit to those saiiie centres, in
stating that there were there thr>usands of tons of wiieat immed-
iately available. Mr. Vivian found that relatively siaall quan
tities were available in Government stores situated on motor roads,
that by far the greater part of the wheat in Gov© maw at possession
was in stores situated at some distance from motor roads, to which
the grain could only be brought by slow animal transport; tnat
tii© amount of wheat in the Government’s possession was but a
fraction, say one-third, of the meat wnich ought to have been
delivered uad tin© officials been honest.
Mr* Vivian further revealed that Tabriz had no more
tnan 16 days* wuaat and il our in stock:, that deliveries of grain,
barley in particular, to the Hussians were se iously in arrears
and that he must tnerefore reserve all the readily available grain
for local coxisumption. Go that was the end of tne struggle to
get grain to Tehran, at least for the moment.
Mr. Vivian has concentrated motor transport to bring
in the & rain immediately available on motorable roads and is
striving to press every available animal into service to bring
further supplies forward to these points. His next step is to
compel defaulting landlords to hand over tneir hoards- At the
end ox the month lie was preparing to ask the Governor-General
to authorize tneir arrest more or less en masse, beginning with
the Tabriz districts. When I say that in this district alone
(comprising roughly the area within 25 miles of Tabriz) 250
landlords have refused to give any undertakings or to deliver
any grain, the magnitude of Mr. Vivian’s problem will be realized,
hut it is worth the fight he seems fully disposed to face because
250 landlords represent a lot of wheat. Then of course there
are nundreds of others who have been let off lightly by the
officials, for a consideration. Mr. Vivian fully intends to go
after them too. If he succeeds in the Tabriz district Mr.
Vivian will tackle the rest of the two provinces and a© will
encounter the bitter hostility of the landlord class as a whole
/and
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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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