File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎632r] (911/1080)

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; : ' “ Tuekomaxistan, ’ ’ 15th Febeuaey 1921.
Moscow ex-London .—The Collier’s Association of London has passed a
resolution that there should he an international commission for the distribu-
* tion of raw products among the different countries of the world.
w Georgia goes to war.
The Armenian political agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Georgia states that the policy of the
Georgian Government is a very dangerous one. It has divided the Georgian
Mensheviks into two parties—one of which is for the British and the other for
Soviet Russia.
Tiflis .—Ali Fuad Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , the Nationalist Ottoman envoy to Moscow arrived
here in January. The Greek officials have arrested many Turks in Brusa on
the excuse that they were not well disposed towards the Turks. Hard fighting is
in progress around Smyrna. Mustafa Kemal has inflicted another defeat on
the Greeks. A Constantinople newspaper writes that Mecca has been destroyed.
Moscow .—An English newspaper correspondent writes from Vienna : If
Austria is not helped out of her present difficulties, the Bolsheviks will invade
her in the spring and will take over the administration of the country. She is
in the grip of famine and hunger. She is advised to raise loans from special
banks. Her affairs should be" handed over to the Communists of Russia to
ensure their elucidation.
The provision of homes for the poor in London has been dropped owing
to the necessary five million pounds not being forthcoming.
h; ; Our neighbour.
In connection with the conclusion of the treaty leading to the friendly rela
tions between Russia and Persia everyone must make clear to himself what signi
ficance the neighbouring kingdom of Persia lias for him.
Persia is one of the least cultured of the surviving powers of the East.
At times she has thought herself to be the leader of the world’s progress,
but of that civilisation there lijigers but a mere recollection. In her person we
can picture to ourselves an invalid whose members are in process of decay.
A 7 s causes for such a state of things we can, quote : the form of rule and
frequent wrangling between the scattered khans—rulers who from time to time
present to their government certain demands. Beginning from the Russian
revolution in 1917 in connection with the exit of Imperial rule from the several
northern provinces one can detect a certain change in the social and political Me
of the State. The suffocating atmosphere of existence under a foreign yoke has
quickened in the masses an instinct of nationalism-
Parties existing under the name of (?) adopt a form of minatory organisa
tion which conducts a wide agitation through an uninfluential press. The mask
of complaisance falls from the faces of the so-called Russophils Anglophils,
Germanophis, and other trimmers, who, expressing the will of those directing
them, have sold themselves to foreign powers and serve in the Majlis and Minis
try.
At the present time there exist in Persia parties of democrats, conservative
in composition, and for the most part swayed by rich landlords^and high digmtar-
i QS Ittihad-i-Taraqi—-akin to the Azerbaijan Mussavata—Najatvatan (Salva
tion of the motherland) which corresponds somewhat to the Russian “ Cadets. ”
During the last half of the past year England has exerted great influence
on the social and political life of Persia, while conducting such a vacillating policy
as to incite against herself not only the poor but the merchant and official classes.
This disaffection will be still further enhanced when the people begin_ to
understand the contents of the ultimatum preferred by England to the Persian
Government—an ultimatum which has a distinct bearing on the Russo-Persian
pourparlers.
Evervone will find the action of England to be quite logical from the point of
view of imperialism because potbellied England cannot endure such a flijk upon