Coll 28/111 ‘Persia. Kermanshah – Political diaries.’ [‎299r] (600/751)

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— 7* or th« two oXXlci«lb orrootod hero last Au^uot at (Z'T)
tha rc^ucat of tha Cotnmlaaion anquirlog la to allaged
irregularitlea la the former Khwroar ^August Blary f
l r /n paragraph 7; f oae hae now been tread from blame aad
/^relaaaad* The othar le ©till in ^rleoa and the comrr.laaioa
iteelf la apparently tit 111 sitting, after eight month’a
deliberation*
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8* aot to be entirely oat none by their Ir lamia elaawtiere,
Kartnanahah aeiabe r a of tha xudah party ha Ye aponaored the
formation of n local branch of a labour Utilon calling
itself the united Council of Vioricar* and Toll era of Xr&u*
the prolaaacd aim of which is to batter Ute coudltlone of
labour 9 apparently by a eoharea of flnaaclal rallef for
sic^ or diaabloa m«»bcra of the Union* The leader of
the local union is a Dr Peru tan, an um^uallfiad practitioner
of on savoury reputation Who once served several years In
prison in Tehran for murdering hie mistress* In the
opinion cf the Persia a Acting Mtmagar of the Oil Company,
hao enemies of the labour union gone to great trouble and
satpense to ruin its chances of popularity they could not
have da vised a batter expedient than to secure the appoint*
vmnl of f'orulsn as local chaiman* It might also be said
with truth that Forutan could not have found a more un*
suitable way of introducing his organisation to the Keman-
sheh public th&n the course which he actually took ol
ste^Jng two p«rrformaB«ss in the Potal ^ieitua, on the l$th
and the 14th, of a play in such poor taste * a stupid etory
of prostitution * that all but a tew members of an unpre-
luuicsa audience on the first night left the hall jeering
at the aim of the first set, whilst a long article appeared
in the newspaper "femanahnli* a day or two later taking
strong exception to the imposition of such a spectacle on
honest citizens. On the oeeond night the audience consist
ed chiefly of Tudofc forty oupportere, many of them admitted
free, and the fiasco of the flrat performance was not
therefore repeated. The Soviet Vice-Consul and a beoretary
ol the Soviet Consulate attended the aaconu perforaance,
but nothing else is known of Hussion interest in the new
phenomenon* On the afternoon of the 14th Forutan M pulisct
a f&st ona* on the local authorities by holding an
un^dvertlsed political meeting at the Hotel hisitun, when
he /