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Foreign Affairs
FROM TEHRAN TO FOREIGN OFFICE. 29 AUG 194?
Sir Ro Bullardc
NOe 609a
August S7th, 1941
D# 10*00 p.m# August 27th, 1941#
Rc 10*50 a*m* August 28th, 1941.
D* 10.00 p.m
R. 10*50 a.m,
Repeated to Government of India No* 476
Moscow
Cairo
Bagdad
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IMMEDIATE.
Prime Minister asked me this morning what the
Government could do*I suggested that it would be well not
to make useless resistance* General counter-attack seems to
have been ordered*
2. Prime Minister,to whom I explained that we must
await reply to Shah's question, showed the greatest anxiety
about the possibility of a Soviet occupation of Tehran. I
was able to say with truth that I had no knowledge of Soviet
intentions, but I also tried to persuade hhn that a Soviet
occupation would be very different from Czarist occupation
earlier in the century* He and the Acting Minister for
Foreign Affairs both talked of potential revolution as a result
of Bolshevik propaganda, and latter admitted that ground was
well prepared by [grp.undec:?threats to] people in North
Persia. They both said that Government was prepared to study
any demands, and to try to effect^a speedy settlement - only
military occupation was to be avoided at.all costs.
3* Public here are terrified lest Russians should
occupy Tehran and tend to look to us as at least preferable.
I am very careful not to encourage anti-Russian talk*
4* British Consul at Shiraz reports opinion there
favourable to us, but will be__ disappointed if the Shah stays
in power* This I tHink is pretty general. ^Thefe "is
rl?rpaundec] talk here of a possible coup d etat in favour of
Crown Prince, but I cannot learn whether it has any military
support [grp.undec] without this it could not succeed.
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