مجموعة ١١١/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. كرمانشاه - يوميّات سياسية." [و‎‎٣‎٠‎٠] (٧٥١/٦٠٢)

hm fcr«attfu mi audieaca ot loaxeru 1*0 a uanuunoi&g
Ba 1 •&# Beyyld an«i® accuruin^ to ona account #
the ^maant Prtae &lini«tcr ««U# Ho waa aitarwai'da
taken to tank toy the Ghier ol ^olXoe, Uolonal Aaefi, who
iiiinmril him to an interview at the request of the Acting
aovernor-oeneral# The GovemorM>eueral» Fahi»>»udi«*i>ouleh»
-w«a accustomed to uiaoourtige, not to my tonn, the
otivitlea ol political parties in kemtmahah# The
attituae oi the preeent temporary aaainistration is more
v« t ue tout it is unlikely that any dieturbanco of the
peace would be countenanced, even supposing Forutan were
strong enough to cause one, a hint to this effect %/as
given to him toy i hnterukhshahi when he ordered a aakakahaa
detactaumt of troops to carry out a route march through
the town on the feist. Forutan 1 ® subsequent activities
appear to have been confined to making a speech «t • eraa^i
mao ting in his own houae cm the felat and another on the
following day when with other Tudeh Party followers he
accompanied s^omc of the local jpaulatshahi family, two or
three of whom are connected with the Tudeh, to a mourning
at the grave of a lately deceased menfeer of that family.
in tooth of theae speeches Forutan aeem»* to huve apohen
tooastlngly of the si»e of his following in the to?m tout
in fact genaenshah is still poor soil for th* seeda of
labour unrest. This la in any case a primarily agricultural
area, whilst the principal employer of industrial labour
is the Msmansheh Petroleum Company, the exceptional
benevolence of which in the treatment of itc employee a
is well-Mtnown; the most recent figure » f mu re over, thow
thf»t the Oil Corcpany is responsible directly or indirectly
for the welfare of no leas than 9,000 peraona, employees
and their families, agfcinet a tot/il population for Xerraan-
shah town of only 80 or 90,000* At the samu time,
ecnatruction of n«v British Army canpa at bisitxwi has
provided well-paid work for ttsmera of mtsual labourers.
If, on the other hand, Forutun were to t unsfsr his
activities to F^iadati, ^3ere several thousand men formerly
employed by the American ASmy or the U.d.C.G. are new out
of iotos, he might perhaps have more to show for hie tolling.
9. The authorities forbade all proceeaiono and aeieonstra-
tlons during Muharram. Process ions are said to shave
formed up in some of the mosques tout were not allowed
toy the police to emerge into the streets. According to
one account, local adherents of the political t
'♦jidalat* /