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men from the Russian zone, in seme instances ostensibly
to buy horses and fodder but otherwise unexplained,
hare been reported 1 ram time to time uy the A.jj«Q«
there. The attention with which the Russian a
have followed the events immediately to the ^outh ox
their zone may be due to a concern lost the trouble at
Baneh should spread to iiAKAdAb, where w^nzi i,iuiia»umau, as
has been noticed earlier in this spatoh, is bolievea
to be in close contact with Hama Rashid.
25. Our Soviet celloa^ues are assiduous, ii unoriginal*
propagandists. Their lon^ suit has been an exhibition
of photog t posters, etc. o^ Stnlingmd. and Leningrad*
first shown in Kerman ah ah in March* where it failed to
arouse any marked enthusiasm* and subsequently Uiiti l
O ctober indefetigaoly displayed froiu Qasr- , i—Shirin to
Hama dan and from S ennanda j to Ham with M. I'anicratov*
the jimior Vice-Consul, and his introductory speech
in attendance. A second exhibition on the Industries of
the Urals has recently taken up the running, but the
reception of this, too, by Persians weary of war subjects
has bean lukewarm. Films supplied to the local cixienias*
a public display-board; and a small reading room* opened
in midsummer in & side street, complete the propaganda
armoury of the Soviet Consulate. In their re LatIons
with local Persian officials and notables their contact*
are fairly wide but relations are more correct than
intimate as the fear ol the nurthem neighbour is too
general and too ingrained to allow, with a f« > exceptions,
of real friendliness. Only too often can this fear be
perceived in the apprehensive speculations on what the
end of the German war will bring, in Persia and Rurope.
Celebrations of Soviet national ainiverearies are
however well-attended.
26. For these political and propaganda duties the
Consulate would appeal’ to oe aoequately etaxiec.., in
numbers at least, for in addition to M. Klimov and two
Vice-Consuls there are six subordinates of various kinds.
M. Rlie OGKciuV, the Persian-speaking senior Vice-Consul*
left on transfer to fleshed in June and his place was
not taken until September when K. AVAKOV arrived from
his previous post at Gurgan. During the in^ervxal,
II, Klimov, who has no Persian and !.-!• Pankratov, w.io has