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required, although scrjc oi‘ them have had their supply
or flour specially increeaed for the nirpoae. i*here
is T/phua in the toen, ariu some oi the schoolchilaren
have ueeii iectecu isiot only the hixaele&s destitute
are suffering, out thouaarids u/ho&e income no longer
eufrices to provide enough fo^d, let alone clothes ana
warmth* vlovommeiiu oriiployeea have to cheat and tar e
bribes to 11vd and others have to etetti. The tele »hone
* ires of the British forces in ana aiH^und the town are
cut and carried oi*r in c^noiaei'ablelengths airaoet evei*y
jaight, the value bei;.^ over a ohiilin^ a yarn here.
* 'a r -d • • . .
14. large quaotities or posters continue to arrive
and to be distributed, but it cannot be saia that there
! is much enthusiasm leit over tor the Allied cause while
local economic conditions are ao bau. Our joetors
describing our .*romisfcd help in brin^i.^ v/hoat supplies
have been criticised rather than praised, exnee the
ordinary person is conscious only of the shurta^e at
present around him, for which wo of couroe are partly
blameu. "n. • o laic has been receiving wore middle—
class vusitors than usual lately; the .Hied s icce^woe
have ouric share in this, but in Suiao cases there is a
suspicion that the visitors have been threatened by
leading oi.ilcialo with denunciation on one pretext or
another to the British authorities (a not unccmpkon form
oi blHCXi'ail), aiid wish to get in a com in time, or
to see bow the land lias. Nairly sixty of the leading
Iranian officials and residents, inciuuiiig laany wives,
came to an evening party on January g2nd at the Gonsulate,
| at A'hich propa^aiioa news films ^ere to have boon siiown,
, had Hie idal niachine worked properly. The Iranian
middle clecucs are undoubtedly impressed with the recent
Soviet successes, out these are hardly a popular topic
of Oonvernation. There do not aeeau to be so many
fantastic n mcui's fl/ing around the bazaars these days.
mm .sziimikS
15. The soviet Gonsulate enjoyed the visit during
r the month of General Pavlovsky and his scientific mission
of twelve persons, all of whum had to be accommodated
for several days in their already crowded premises. The
General was a most affabla old gentleman and paid two lengthy