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(iii) Revision of the Income Tax Law and other revenues and the o
haiajioing of the budget:
(iv) Establishment of security throughout the country by strict
application of the law and re-organisation of the responsible organisations:
(v) Provision of work for the unemployed by encouraging special
companies and utilising small capitals, and by initiating
as the extension of the railway, asphalting the high roads and irrigation.
(vi) Improve the lot of the peasants and the workers in accord
ance with special laws to be passea by the lajlis.
(vii) Improve the lot of Government employees and revision of the
Civil Service Law:
(viii) Enforce the new organisation of the Ministry of Health after
anoroval by the Majlis Health Commission and the preparation ot long tern
plans to improve health organisations throughout the country:
(ix) Study and revision of teaching programmes, accelerate the
application of the Compulsory Education Law, and steps to be takun o
establish secondary schools throughout the country:
(x) Revision of the Electoral Lav;:
(xi) Preparation of long term plans to develop agriculture and
industry throughout the country and the tabling of bills to this en i
Majlis.
2 The debate on the programme began in the Majlis session of 19th
July when Dr Ardclan, speaking against the Government, ^lored
from the programme of any specific reference to the evacuation of Persia y
Allied troons He pleaded for freedom of the Press and suggested the
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to stress the fact that Persia was an. agricultural couno.i/^ hicu in ^
could not absorb those now unemployecj*as the result of discharge from allied
Sar LtivitLs and that Government should take early and energetic stops to
vai activities, a ( denutv Farrukh, who supnor ted Government,
provide employment for them. f or the formation
referred to evacuation and later revivea tno ^
Of a Tribal Affairs Commission. The debate was to be continued m the sess
of 22nd July.
3, The Persian Government has now recognised the new Polish National
Government in Warsaw.
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bill.
The minister of finance has tabled a further two-twelfths Budget
Appo intments - civil*
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(i) Amir Ahmad Kihbud of the K.P.A. to be second secretary at
Washington:
(ii) Ahmad Eahir to be 1st Secretary at Berne:
X /and about to become unemployed
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