مجموعة ٢٨/١١٢أ "بلاد فارس. تبريز - رسائل شهرية عن الوضع الداخلي في أذربيجان وتقارير متنوعة." [و‎‎٤‎٩] (١٢٣٧/٩٨)

Tao ooac^rt v^lilciri loXXowtid &&& ^nUitUiaa tic ally applauded#
198. ^^.j^ aUa (iast'Oljuy, P ra 185). .U&l
c&yk-.p adherence to the rarty has been spreading oantixTOlJ e y*t< xh«
newepaper ^Aaerbaijan 1 * has Q&ca printing telegram* tvdtr mrl %ver
province, includiiv, one from the dhmflc&k Kurds, hi
formation of local Party committees. Mach of this frop; o
^travelling mission headed by Huaaeln ^-uli Katibi, whicn has neon
touring the Korth-^estern part of the province. 4 ►« -Khoi, its vi
ven
ten
Party
Ithe
the
it
ambers
wats followed by the formation of a lamp or ary Oaomittlf# 1
*ith an office open from 9 to 12 4, to 7 for tk*««£u «4
Party membmi# On be£j>tember 25th., "Azerbaijan’* printed
a committee of seven members in "Umla 0 , comprising
one merchant, on^ official, a former deputy for
of habib Aghmsadeh the 1'abriz Osmocratic
is o fomer internee# un bepteaber 28th
Ibranimi, ’’redacteur reepon&able" of the freedom IVont "Sharvar-i-^ov”
had gone with several former ludeh ftembex^ to Pezaieh encourage tne
a telegram from
three landlords,
Kezaian and the orotner
leader# Pne of the laiidlorde
it was reported that faridun
Democrats of Western Azerbaijan# This seems to have been too much for
the Rezaieh temporaxy oomuittee, who had not r. alised that the
Azerbaijan Democratia Rarty hed inherited so much Tudeh and Freedom
Front personnel# The original members of the conti* it tee arc apparently
now endeavouring to repudiate their allegiance to the democratic Party#
Forty committees have also been set up In Sarab, Aetara, Mehreban,
ghahpur, Mahui Mianuuab, Ardebil ana many other plucea, and ja >ng file
M I omen of Resaieh”, a congratulatory telegram froia wham was printed on
September 28th#
In Tabriz, t e Party has been ladsfatlgsbly preparing for the
ftll*JUerbsij«n Conference announced for October lat. On September 22nd.
there was a meeting of tbu Party in the Aunieipality to settle the
agrarian disputes; it was resolved that landlords should now receive
one fifth of tue cereal crops, but that no extra contributions such as
butter, hay or eggs might be levied, fixe Acting Governor-General then
telegraphed to Tehran, asking for authorization to sign this r~solution
which it was proposed to publish in the pr . ss and by wall-notioes. Ho
reply has be«n received# hikjou , e action has further annoyed the
landlord class#
At a Ferty meetiiig in the Ferdowsi School, Xabrix, on September
2bth» the principal speakers were the Deputy Fiahivari and All
Shnbistary# They ©tressed the poor condition of the town, the effeteaeE
of the adminifitratlon, the pr^pondcrane* of Dehraa reactionaries" in
the local Govemmcnt anc the need for a provincial to eacouraga
the teaching, of Turk! in schools anu effect all the other long overdue
reforms# At this meeting, 60 delegatee wer~* appointed to represent
Tabriz at the jemoer&tic Party Gonf©reuse.
On September 24th. copies of a telegram sent by the Party to the
Council of Foreign Ministers in -woMon wtre handed to the Soviet,
American and British Gensul&r Representatives in Tabriz ani to the
superior of the Catholic Mission as head of the French Community• It
was triginally desired to send the message in Turk!, but the Tabriz
Telegraph Master pointed out that it could not be t-ken down in London; |
the Party therefore made a ii sty French version which wafc duly trans
mitted. After invoking the Atlantic Charter, with its promise of
democratic right© of self-governaeat, the telegram pi'oceede to accuee
the Iranian Government of every kind of o press ion and misrule * The
main body of the message conclude si rl ie dcmr^nci a democratic Government
for all Iran, we claim interior liberty, that is to say autonomy, for
the people of Azerbaijan, and while su fitting to the general laws of
Iran we desire to be masters in our land#” The telegram ends with an
appeal to the great democratic states to assist '5 million Azerbaijanis*
and is signed by over 40 names, including those of Plahlvari and other
prominent Party members# A telegram was also sent to Generalissimo
Gtalin, asking him to give the necessary instructions to Mr* Molotov
so that the demand© set forth in the telegram to London might be
granted# A message has also been sent to the Trades Union Conference
In Paris, but the text ha© not been published#
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