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my XeAe Now 15 for June 1952-6 he: REPORT FROM IRAN. Sd arte ne ee ed 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 Ste SE a Tae A 5 ae AF oi Sie Seer
