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Sir R. Bullard. n . c 0 ,^
No. 508. D • P- m - -August, 1941.
8 th August, 19U. R * 6.1.5 p.m. 9th August, 19U.
Repeated to Angora No. 74 ,
Moscow No. 126,
Cairo No, 97,
India No. 391,
Bagdad No, 22 Saving.
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V v ’ Angora telegram No. 1903 not repeated to India and Bagdad.
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.Until recently Turkish Ambassador was always vigorous
in his representations to the Iranian (Persian) Government
about German danger in Iran. Turkish Government cannot
reasonably belittle this danger now.
2 . It is admitted that figures of Germans in Iran are
exaggerated in the press. The exact figures are un
obtainable but I should say 3,000 mentioned by His Majesty's
Ambassador would be^an^outside figure, women and children
included. Article in rocal press which I reported in my
■ e -£PQ - 111 U Q » 1-16 giv es the number of Germans emnloyed in
railways and industries as 1690, In addition there are
doctors, merchants, employees in transport companies, teachers,
etc. total German men might be about 1,000. More important
than tne numbers, however, is the positions they occupy.
Doctor in Keimanshah, Director of technical school at Kerman,
lecturer in agricultural college at Kerej, are all centres of
Nazi propaganda, while the danger constituted by the Germans
who worn in arms factories or on the railways existing, or
under construction, is [grp, omitted] slight.
RECd. POL. DEPt.
7 (MUG 941
INDIA OFFICE