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Sir E. Bullard to Mr. Eden .— (Received May 5.)
(No. 115.)
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 a copy of Intelligence Summary No. 15; the 8th-14th April, 1942,
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compiled by the military attache to this legation.
Tehran, April 14, 1942.
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Military Attache's Intelligence Summary No. 15 for the Period April 8-14, 1942.
(Secret.)
Persian Affairs.
Political.
THE crisis of the week has been the British demand for the expulsion of
the Japanese Legation. The Majlis, consulted by the Cabinet in secret session,
rejected the demand, it is believed, unanimously. Further pressure met with
further delaying tactics, but eventually resulted in the Japanese Legation being
informed on the 12th that they were to leave within a week.
2. Action has at last been taken against certain notorious pro-Axis
Persians, six in number, who had been named by His Majesty’s Legation. They
have been removed to towns in South-Eastern Persia, where it is promised they
will be kept under police surveillance.
3. The commission referred to in Summary No. 14/42, paragraph 1, whose
purpose it is to investigate grievances in tribal lands, is to consist of the Minister
of Justice as president, the Attorney-General, the Under-Secretaries and
Directors-General of the Ministries of Finance and of the Interior, and a repre
sentative of the Ministry for War (General Muqaddam (M.A. 182)).
4. The Government has announced in the press that instructions have been
given to the Governor-General of Kermanshah and to the General Officer
Commanding the Forces in the W T est to investigate certain complaints made by
the inhabitants of Kurdistan regarding their lands.
. 5. Hostility to the Allies is extending and deepening. Their supporters
are disheartened and afraid to give practical expression to their sympathies. The
causes are many : the occupation is resented; people are hungry and miserable;
prices continue generally to rme, due, it is popularly believed, to British purchases
and British insistence on an additional note issue; there is great disappointment
that article 7 of the treaty, which promises economic help, has as yet brought no
additional benefits nor even concrete promises; insecurity is increasing; the news
continues to tell of British disasters. These sentiments in the country are partly
responsible for the Government’s reluctance to take any definite pro-Ally or
anti-Axis action.
Appointments — Civil.
6. Mohsin Samiyi to be Farmandar of Gorgan.
Ismail Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. to be Farmandar of Bandar Abbas.
Economic.
7. The Minister of Finance in a statement to the press stated that the
reasons for the scarcity of wheat in recent years were—
(i) The limitations imposed on the cultivation of rice resulting in a
greater consumption of wheat.
(ii) Development of cotton-growing on land previously producing wheat.
(iii) The uneconomic price paid to the cultivator for wheat.
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