Coll 28/97 ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries’ [‎247r] (493/749)

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Section 1.
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Copy No.
Sir R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—(Received Ylth January.)
(No. 4.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of Intelligence Summary No. 1 for the period the 1st to the
7th January, 1945, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, %th January, 1945.
Enclosure.
(Secret.)
Military Attaches Intelligence Summary No. 1 for the period \st to 7th January,
1945.
Persian A ffairs.
Political.
1. Dr. Millspaugh still retains his powers. Although there is among the
Deputies some measure of agreement that he should be deprived of them, argument
still persists as to how the national economy should in future be controlled.
2. The Tudeh party is reported to have greatly extended their activities in
, Tehran and to be making great efforts to increase their numbers and to organise
bands, it is presumed with a view to demonstrations of some kind in the near
future. The Persian police and military authorities are apprehensive of dis
turbances and are revising and elaborating their plans for the suppression of civil
disturbance. Their anxiety is increased by the readiness shown by the Russians
to send troops to the scene of a demonstration. This happened not only in the
Tudeh demonstration at the end of October (see Summary No. 41/44, para
graph 1) but again on the 26th December, when there was a disturbance in
connexion with an Ashura procession. On the latter occasion the mob had been
dispersed before the arrival of the Russian troops who, they explained, had come
to assist the Persian authorities.
3. A section of the press continues to attack British policy and to argue
that Russia is justified in trying to prevent the establishment of British influence
in North Persia.
4. A circular has been sent to all Governors-General and Governors
instructing them to give wide publication to the following statement of the
Government’s intentions :—
(a) To prepare and put into execution plans for the improvement of the lot
of villagers and workmen, ensuring that each individual receives
• recompense according to his deserts.
(h) To extend and improve the State medical services.
(c) To construct the schools and provide the instructors necessary to give
effect to the law of compulsory education.
(d) To reform and reorganise radically all the departments of Government
administration.
(e) To prepare plans for the development of agriculture, for the improve
ment of irrigation and for the exploitation of mines and mineral
deposits by the formation of companies for that purpose.
^ (/) To reform certain existing laws.
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