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FROM TEHRtiN TO FOREIGN OFFICE
Sir R. Bullard
No. 1026
12 th October,1944
Bo 4,50 p.*, GMT 15th October ,1944
Ho 6o55 p„m. BST I3th October,1944
Repeated to Moscow Saving
Government of India Saving
Cairo Saving
Bagdad Saving
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My immediately preceding telegram.
There is no doubt that the Government’s decision represents
the will of the Pei si an people so far as it can be ascertained.
At secret session of the Mailis the only soeoch strongly in
favour of the acceptation c:f the Russian request was by [grp.
undec. ] hurt ash son of the former Minister of the Court who
made money buying fox the Russians in Koshod and was elected
with their help. Tudeh members are [grp. undec. ? in concert
with the] Russians but are embarrass via by the fact that some
weeks ago, when only British and American approaches had been
made, one of the most prominent of Tudeh deputies made violent
speech demanding that no oil concession should be given until
after the war. Perhaps it is for this- reason that the chief
Tudeh newspaper is giving indirect support by reproducing pro-
Russian material from other papers. Small group of secondary
newspapers are backing the Russian application violently with
material which they are quite incapable of writing themselves.
2 . More than one newspaper has stated that the Russians
do not need oil and made their ofiMr solely for the sake of
the Persians. K e seems to have uttered similar cant to the
Prime Minister who unfortunately forgot or at least omitted
to suggest that the Soviet Geverrmomi should assist Persia by
paying an economic price fur munitions and rice.
O.T.P.