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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
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£zY R. Bullard to Mr. Eden.—{Received \§th February.)
(No. 35.)
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. 5 of the 29th January to the
4th February, 1945, compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, bth February, 1945. j Jli ^ 4 , * 1 '
Enclosure.
Military Attache's Intelligence Summary No. 5, Secret,
^th January to \th February, 1945.
the 'period
Persian Affairs.
Political.
1. The affair of Dr. Millspaugh still drags on. The obstinate doctor has
further played into the hands of his enemies by a renewed insistence on the
dismissal of A. H. Ibtehaj, the Governor of the National Bank, and by a further
request that, according to the terms of the law by which he was engaged, all
economic functions should be placed again in his charge. This letter is now
under examination by the Council of Ministers and the Persian Prime Minister
has announced in the Majlis that, as the doctor’s recommendations cannot be
accepted, there is no need to refer the matter to the Majlis for arbitration as
previously announced (see paragraph 7 (iii) of Summary No. 4).
The Majlis.
2. The chief business has been as follows :—
(i) A statement by Fahimi, Minister without portfolio, on his recent tour
1 of inspection in Kurdistan. He stressed the loyalty and patriotism of
the Kurds and mentioned the need for increased medical and
educational facilities;
(ii) The passing of two Bills (with double urgency procedure) tabled by the
Minister of Health. The first empowers the Ministry of Health to
enforce all public health regulations previously enforced by the
Ministry of the Interior. The second Bill was for the preparation
of a two-year plan for the reorganisation of the Ministry of Health
after approval by the Majlis Public Health commission;
(iii) The tabling of a private member’s Bill for the prohibition of the
cultivation of opium;
(iv) A spirited discussion arising out of a remark by the Azarbaijan Tudeh
Deputy Oyanessian to the effect that, as far as Persia was concerned,
the Atlantic Charter was a £c scrap of paper
(v) A parliamentary question by Dr. Musaddiq (Musaddiq-us-Saltaneh)
regarding the legality of the interning of certain Persians suspected
of anti-Allied activities. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, though
supplied by the British and Russian Ambassadors with ample material
for a convincing reply, made a weak statement in which 'no mention
was made of the seriousness of the offences or of the possibilitv that
death sentences would have been passed on some of the internees if
they had been brought to trial instead of being interned He said
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