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REPORT FROM IRAN.
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In a recent dispatch from Cairo it was noted that the riots in
that city had been organized by two secret agents, connected withthe Solish
Embassy, Kalnikoff and Grassere he latter was reported to have Left for
Iran a few hours before the riots started. This fact should be kept in mind.
It is for the first time that a young man has worked his way up and has bee
accepted into thermost exclusive highest class of secret agents. in Cairo |
he worked as equal, side by side with Kalnikoff. He is now in the same pesto
as Fratkine Schmul, Ludwig Renn and Vattorio Viuali. It should not be under
estimated that this outstanding young man has now been sent to lrane
That some important move is preparing in that country is sub- |
stantiated through a report published by "Hungaria", an extremely well
informed and fully responsible emigrant paper. According to the in?rowa tions
received, two agents of the present Hungarian government left Budapest in
the middle of April and came through Rome on their trip to Teheran. the |
official aim of their mission was the purchase of petrol in Persia. Serious
doubts can be raised as to the true purpose of that mission. It has to be
recalled that Hungary is a petrol-producing and iwportúng country itself;
that, with its sleve labor, this production is constantly increasing; and
finally that - even if Hungary should byy petrol in Iran - the question
remains ag, to how the transport can be arranged, since British vessels patre
the Persian nd will newer allow a tanker to pass, without previous accord _
between the Iranian government and the Anglo-iranian Company -e. Laté in May
further so-called Hungarian commercial agents have come to kome from |
Budapest and ave waiting for their Iranian visa. The one calls himself by |
the name of Francis Kardie He pretends to be the director of the Ghmmkinpex
Chemolimpex Company. His passeport carries the number 100-691. His companior
indicates John Geer77x Szaszak as his name. He states to be the representatii
of the Tanimpex Company and to be sent to Persia for the purchase of shepp |
and goat hides ... It is clear that these agents are not bona fide commercie
men and that their increasing number and activity points towards a possible
crisis preparing in the Near-East. |
Persia's internal difficulties indeed give many openings and
chances to increased communistic propaganda.
there is first of all the social situation of the countrye Among
a total population of 18.2 million, only a few hundred families form the
leading elíte. They are the extremely wealthy Landowners, as well as the |
proprietors of the textile industrtes and of the carpet and silver exporting
businesses. They live in great luxury, stay part of the year in Paris, on —
the Cote atAzur and other Western resorts. Their sons study in kuropean |
universities; their wives, contrary to kersian ruges, enjoy complete freedor
They have become Westerners in thinking ana Life. |
The 85% of the population are farmers. They live miserably; work exclus ivel
for the landwwmer, to whom they have to give from half to eight-tenths of
their total production. ú
Industrial workers are employed in Abadan,- the center of the anglo-lranian
Company," and in some Fersian owned, mostly textile industries. Workers in
Abadan are treated like European labor: housing, schools, recreation facili
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