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Coll 28/111 ‘Persia. Kermanshah – Political diaries.’ [346r] (694/751)
The record is made up of 1 file (371 folios). It was created in 22 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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returned to Kermanshah on the 9th July after leave.
9. It is announced that H.I.M. the Shah has donated Rls
2,500,000 towards the. cost of providing Kermanshah with a piped water
supply (June Diary ? para 6). Professor WINSOR, American Irrigation
Adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, arrived at Kermanshah on
July 25th to study the possibilities of bringing water from SARAB and
the QARA $TJ river and returned to Tehran on the 27th. It is reported
that if the project is pronounced feasible, a limited liability company
will be formed to provide the additional funds needed.
10, The one and only main road of Kermanshah, asphalted free of
charge by the British Army Authorities in 1944, is deteriorating rapidly
for lack of repairs and is now little better thah a series of gigantic
pot-holes. The metalling of the road was also put in by the British Army
and should have been paid for by the Municipality, but owing to a dispute
between the Chief of the Municipality, Aqa MUHAMMADI and the President
of the Municipal Council, Aqa ABU MOALI (June Diary, para 8) it has not
yet been paid for. This dispute has completely paralyzed all brahches
of municipal activity.
POLITICAL:
11* On the 28th June trouble occurred at FAMRNIN, a large village
near Ramadan, when Tudeh leaders went out to try and establish a branch^o-
of the party there. The villagers resisted, a fight followed, and there
were a few casualties. The authorities made investigations, found that
the Tudeh were to blame, and made some arrests. This led to still
greater trouble in Ramadan on July 7th when the Labour Union organised
a public demonstration outside the Justice Department to demand the
release of four of these prisoners. While the delegates of the
demonstrators were interviewing the authorities inside the Justice
Department, a shot was fired outside and the delegates rushed out and
they and the authorities tried to disperse the mob. The mob did not
disperse, however, until shots had been fired by the Police. Three
demonstrators were wounded and one policeman was fatally stabbed. Two
of the three leaders, JA’FAR DAULATSHAHI and YUIL LEVON, fled from
Ramadan and their whereabouts are still unknown.
12, Following' these'events, a session of the Tudeh Party
committee was held in Kermanshah on July llth at which mutual
recriminations were exchanged, SEYID ABBAS TABATABAI accusing MUHSIN
ALAVI of mishandling the affair by sending DAULATSHAHI to Ramadan and
bringing the party into disrepute, whiles ALAVI held Engineer ATIQACHI
responsible. ATIQACHI, who appears to be Tudeh Parry inspector for
Western Iran himself went to Ramadan to try and straighten things out
but was not able to accomplish anything.
. The Tudeh Party in this district has been further weakened-
following its^etback over the Kermanshah Petroleum Company strike and ^
the events in Ramadan asst by the transfer of one of its leading lights
at Kermanshah, Dr. AiWAR SHARI, Director of the Red Lion and Sun
Hospital at^Kermanshah, who has been removed to Tehran* Re left on
July 24th. Another leader, MUHSIN -h.L«VT, principal of the Shahpur
School at Kermanshah is also expected oo be transferred shortly. The
third leader, Engineer ATIQACHI, does not seem to have much driving force
celebtatioh was held at the Homay Cinema, Kermanshah on
July 25th in honour of the 2nd anniversary of the foundation of the
Freedom Front. The Consular Corps was invited but did not attend. A
number of speeches were made but most of them were non-controversial in
nature. The show was quite well organised and arrangements for the
reception of the guests were excellent. A cinema show concluded the
proceedings.
_ In QABR 4 !!-SHIRTN no special Tudeh activity was reported
during July. Elsewhere in the province the party has also remained
quiescent. In SANANDAJ and surrounding villages there was some propa-
gandabut the Tudeh Office has not yet been officially opened though it
has distributed its first manifesto calling on the peoole to join the
party, " 0
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Monthly political diaries submitted by the British Consul at Kermanshah in Persia [Iran]. The diaries cover much of the Second World War and the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Iran. The reports cover Kermanshah Province, and include summaries of: local Persian administration; the activities of local tribes; affairs in [Persian] Kurdistan; political affairs, including the activities of the Tudeh Party of Iran and the local workers’ union; agricultural production, food supply and food shortages; economic and commercial activities; British interests; Soviet interests; British, Soviet, and to a lesser extent German propaganda activities. A small number of items of correspondence are also included in the file. Some of the reports are preceded by note sheets which contain summaries of the reports written by 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. staff.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Paragraphs within the reports are numbered, beginning with 1 for the first paragraph of each report.
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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 374; 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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