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where he has been adding to the confusion already existing among the Kurdish
tribes on the Persian border.
13. 1 he ^tezidi chieftains, Khalaf al Nasir and Khodaida Kamo Sharo,
were detained in Mosul in early September and later sent to live in Halabja, in
the Sulaimani Liwa. Fhey had been giving trouble to the local authorities in
^ e .^ n j ar ’ ai id it was considered that a short spell of enforced residence outside
their own tribal area would make them more amenable.
14. M. Maisky arrived in Bagdad by the overland route in the early
oi the 6th October and left the following morning by car en route for
1 eh ran. During his short stay he had an interview with Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , who told
m6 j t d 1 ? Ia / sky was obviousl y eager that diplomatic relations between Moscow
and Bagdad should be established as soon as possible. He was, however, deter
mined that the first official step towards this end should be taken by the Iraqi
Government. Xuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. agreed in principle to an exchange of diplomatic
repiesentatives, but, pleading the Cabinet difficulties and his own imminent
departure on leave under doctor’s orders, deferred further action to a later date.
I 16 .} r \ l } ie GDmsIer explained to me that it was his intention to await the outcome
ot the then forthcoming Moscow Conference and of the subsequent conference
" Tvr le W ° 11 d take P lace between Mr. Churchill, President Roosevelt
and Marsnal otalm.
15. The establishment of a Russian Legation in Bagdad would without
doubt excite much interest and speculation not only in the capital itself but
throughout Iraq. Russian military successes have won as much popular admin,-
t on here as they have elsewhere among the peoples of the United Nations and the
social and industrial achievements of the Soviet Government, though only dimly
understood have attracted wide attention. There is. moreover, hi'this country
, an old established tradition of foreign interference, and among many of its people
an inherited instinct for intrigue with foreign influences which will give to the
advent of a Soviet diplomatic mission a special significance and importance It
S to he expected that many of the young men of the “ left wing ” will hasten to
establish personal contact with the members of the Soviet Mission and that
tion a"tS 0n Th t e l h h i VT t erb l° le t they Wl11 P ° Ur OUt lh0 "' “‘h.-'siasm in adula-
tion and flattery. I he habitual intriguers toe will be well up in the running and
will eagerly seek to entagle the legation in their plots and schemes. The rumour-
„‘;y e - ai ‘ d P°‘Gcal prophets will also find in the arcana of Soviet foreio-n
If , v , a rR ' h . e f t, ' r Cultivation of their peculiar ideals, and with the openine
of diplomatic relations between Iraq and Russia there must come a flood of talP
about what this event portends for Iraq. f talk
on th^fiMw' 'T' lhe fi nister Res “ient of the fnited States, left Bagdad
xr; . t, September > ;uld his successor is expected to arrive with the rank of
Minister Plenipotentiary before the entT of November.
]7 ’ yhe Iraqi'Iinister at Washington was authorised in later October to
tion AgrLment 0 6 ^ &overnment ’ the Ullited Nations Relief Rehabilita-
,» y,*. d bl? Iraqi Government accorded formal recognition to tbp op,.- t ,.i
Republic on the 13th October, and the Regent marked the occ ision L !" I b u® Se
congratulations and good wishes to the President V endmS h,m
AbdUl nlah ’ S He
'21. Gratifying evidence of the goodwill of tf>P normm fk-
towards Great Britain continues to come in from nv.nv^ f
September parties, official. semlofficTaT and pTvate We^e Svem I hl '° Ugh ?, Ut
country to celebrate the Allied victory over Italv and I mvcolf f ' ° V f r ie
hundred congratulatory telegrams. One shaikh'of AiLira expre^Td hiTnlea t "’°
in the event by purchasing £10,000 War Savings bonds oml Ln h l )leasure
and many others have bono-fit smaller oimnfifipc f ‘i S ? 1 enoi :J 1cin g interest,
tlie provinces shaikhs an&bte u^d eds^ fT In
officers to te them how delio-hted thev wppp i„. . U,e P ollt ‘cal advisory
armies m the Med.terianefn ln ev^ : 7 , ^ T* b - v the A " ied
constantly being shown as may he seen from the Mlo^f exim^r 0^