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GENERAL:
1. The month was quiet again on the whole. The result of the
British General Election was received with some surprise and was a
favourite topic of conversation, the general impression among Persians
being that England had gone completely Communist, The imminence of the
Majlis elections in Persia gave rise to a good deal of obscure oolitical
activity and the usual behind-the-scenes intrigues.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT:
2. There has been no visible progress towards the nomination of
a Governor-General for the Fifth Ustan. It is understood that the
proposed appointment of SARDAR Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division. AKRAM has been definitely cancelled.
It has been suggested that Prince Asadullah SHAMS UULK ARA (Shahab ud
Douleh) K.&.V.O., since March 1944 Farmandar of Kurdistan where he has
been doing quite well, should be appointed Acting Governor-General until
a permanent appointment can be made, but it is still uncertain whether
this will go through or not. In the meantime the Acting Governor-
General, Aqa JEHANSHAHI, is following his usual laissez-faire policy,
w-hich is very trying for the few officials who wc ..Id like to display a
little energy if given the opportunity,
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3. Colonel KEMAL, Officer Commanding Gendarmerie at Kermanshah,
proceeded to Tehran on July 12th and returned to Kermanshah on the 29th.
The object of his visit was to discuss various departmental problems,
including the appointment of a Gendarmerie officer in succession to
the late KERIM BEG. LAHUNI. at Nausud (June Diary, para 20), and to
secure some of the new material which Colonel -Schwarzkopf had purchased
during his visit to the U.S.A. Col. Kemal stated on his return that he
had been promised two armoured cars and some radio transmitting and *
receiving sets, but men to work the latter have to be trained first by
the Americans.
4. Colonel MAULAVI, former O.C. Gendarmerie at Kermanshah, also
returned from Tehran to Kermanshah in the latter half of this month to
give evidence in the case of the alleged disappearance of smuggled silver
captured by the Gendarmerie near Qasr-i-Shirin (April Diary, para 6).
5. Colonel YADULLAH KHAN A’ZAM ZANGANEH (June Diary, para 7)
arrived during July to commence his duties as Military Governor of
main roads and adjacent Allied military installations from Hamadan to
Khosrovi, with jurisdiction over an area of 6 kilometres to the north
and south of the road and with power to hand over offenders to the
Military Court instead of the normal civil courts where in practice it
was impossible to get a sentence against them. Apart from establishing
an office in the quarters formerly occupied by the Political Adviser,
no activities on his part were observed during the month.
6. Ajnew Director of Posts and Telegraphs, Aqa HAIDAR ALI SEHAT
POUR, arrived in Kermanshah on July 19th. he has been Inspector-General
in the Posts and Telegraphs at Tehran for the past seven years, previous
to which he was Director of Posts and Telegraphs at Khorramshahr for ten
years.
7• Aqa Arslan FARHANG arrived from Tehran at the end of the
month to take up the duties of Assistant to the Chief of the Municipality
He was in the Kermanshah Municipality before but wa^ sent away to Tehran
at the request of the Political Adviser of the time (Lt. Col. Fletcher)
on suspicion of malpractices in the distribution of the Government
bread ration. In Tehran he was given a minor Dost in the Ministry of
the Interior,
8.
Aqa Buzurg JANABI , Director of the Agricultural Bank, re-