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inefficient, the chief cause, in the opinion of the Chief of the General Staff, of the
present poor state of the mechanical transport is the total lack of any system of
regular periodical inspection.
Appointments — Civil. +
10. Hassan Karimi to be an inspector of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Internal Security.
Isfahan.
11 . M. Krutchkov, the titular Soviet Consul at Isfahan, has returned to
his post. It remains to be seen whether he interferes in local affairs with the same
precipitancy and stupidity as the egregious Marchenko. Tudeh and anti-Tudeh
activity has, for the moment, died down. The new Armenian Archimandrite at
Julfa is reported as having told his flock that they should consider the wisdom
of migrating from Persia and returning to their coreligionists in Soviet Armenia.
Makran.
12 . Further acts of highway robbery are reported Two trucks were
recently held up 8 miles north of Zahidan and the passengers were robbed of
their cash. Baluchis are suspected.
A zerbaijan.
13. The Persian column which tried to reach Mahabad and which was
turned back by the local Russian commander is still at Saya. It has been told to
stand fast there in the hopes that the Russians will subsequently permit its entry
into Mahabad, and that the Kurds will realise what is coming to them when
the Russians depart. Meanwhile negotiations between the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs and the Soviet Embassy are at a standstill. The Russians still insist that
any garrison required for Mahabad should come from Tabriz; be limited to
one battalion of infantry and should not be replaced in Tabriz.
British Interests.
14. His Excellency Sir Reader Bullard, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.I.E., left
Tehran on the 9th April for Andimeshk, Khorramshahr and Bushire. He is due
to return on the 16th April.
French Interests.
15. The Persian Military Mission which has been visiting the Western
Front at the invitation of the French Government left France on the 10 th April
on their return voyager
Polish Interests.
16. The number of civilian Poles in Persia on the 6 th April, 1945, was :—
• Men.
Tehran ... 368
Isfahan ... 71
Ahwaz ... 172
Women.
1,181
442
758
Children.
300
417
317
Total.
1,849
930
1,247
Tehran, l§th April, 1945.
.
Grand
Total 4,026
Appendix “ A.”
Statutes of the Supreme Economic Council approved by the
Cabinet (Bayat)—April 1945.
1 . The Supreme Economic Council shall be composed of twenty-five persons
to be elected by the Cabinet on the proposal of the Prime Minister from among
intelligent persons with a knowledge of economics, financial, agricultural and
technical affairs, their election to be ratified for a period of three years. The
Ministers of Finance and Agriculture, the heads of the Government Economic
Organisation, the National Bank, the Mortgage Bank, the Agricultural Bank, the