Coll 28/111 ‘Persia. Kermanshah – Political diaries.’ [‎60r] (120/751)

Internal ^re^tiu^fe xroni the oviet Ooxiau .1 tc^ the htjac-iiieii o- the
villages a. a iavit# them to come aia be entertained ae brotherb oi
the ConBulate in Keroamishah* - iuct that the t i'dic *.0 f Ml 5 u8Bi ^ rX8 A
ia atraaaad* elilch i>. <_t 1 i .el/ to it sue iea » ^ ^P^.r'Ib^ikr.nJ
hating K:>r*de# One British Indian officer vrut> recently tackled by
the Co isul fit a oarty a* d (iueaticned about relationbf
&A* about the attitude of h.e cowmaiidin* officer*
•KO 'AG, .NI>A.
16. A gooc deal of priuteu propagandc ha« ~een distributed
during the month, and can now be seen freely displayed in aho^s ana
throughout the town* . omev ! hat strangely. the war-new®
became Kood the lor;al audience® at the Consulate'a broadcasting
^remises h«ve become smaller than before. The :.d.B • cinema-van
has oe<m travelling in thii~ district and hud some auccesa in Kemanenar
itself* <. ; 1 - e e di* leyed before the v..,wg a l .u
Harrison one ni..ht, e. d the 0 . 0 .C. as ed for another uh. wing with
ail it'rent filne on the next night. Reception of the g.u.O* news
from Lo idon in Persian at 7.45 p.m. each evening is clear ana widely
listened to, but our trantjnission^ from T a hr an hardly audible
here. The German transmissions la Persian which used to be jammed
until recently, •-.re now lo e r bstweon d* 40 and 9 p*m They
tell so many obvious untruths about the state of affaire in the
British occupied mrt ox Iran that they no longer have so much efieet.
n K.
17, .o in Tehran, the sudden series 01 \ilied s^xccesoeb in
R usbia aaa H^rth ifrioa has rmd a consta^ - effeet here. General
ly sneaking, there is wide-eoresd relief that the war hau been pushed
baud' rr m the Midale Eeat nml the Caucaeu® for another spell at
leant f and 0 rha )» for good. Grudging aumiration 3 or the ‘ovxet
Army even can cccasionally be heard, h ile thxa Gonudlute has haa to
oooe with almost a s.ate of visitors, official a a don-oixicial, in
recent weeks. It is xretty obvious that the dearth o: visits in the
early utumn was due to oxpect?,ti the ih. ^x arrival here, 1
wull-wiahers^
can uo« show themselves, end the Colouei of aii infantry regnaent
'here actually wrote to ask for more British propaganda lines the
pother day, which woulc have been unthtndeble at aiiy time ier.
jur ill-wisuers c iti me to «re -'.c. rumo re aboi t the ora ei^ect oi
the British troops here, to bbme food shortage® ma even the locai
s ieculators' rogueries on us, and to do their oest to create •‘•« ar8
oi famine, or perhaps to help to create famine itseix a ext _ ing,
when another aemfid thrust towards Iran not beyond hopin t xor.
F. A. G Cook
, • Goatiul.
jo Ai T i t>H P v ‘x-* oU ij i'n,
a --ui I.
December 1st, 194^