PERSIA WITHDRAWS COMPLAINT

Chronicle (Levin), 16 April 1946, Page 5

PERSIA WITHDRAWS COMPLAINT

Press Assn.

RUSSIAN PLEDGE TO EVACUATE TROOPS ACCEPTED . . * \ ... _

Fresh and Startling Developments May Follow ,]

BH Telegraph

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R^ceiVed Tti6^day, 11. 80 a.iii. LONDON, April 18. Th€ Persi&h CGYerftm^tlt spokesman, Prince FirotiSE, announeed that the Persian delegate td the 8feeUi-ity Cotincih M. Hussein Al&, has beten itistrUeted to withd^aw ihimediately Persia's cafee from the Security Council. 3 *» . Priiice FiroUX add^d: ,!Thfe Gonditidhs arid circumstanGes 'which dictated the iayiiig of the Cdniplaifit hefore the Cotulcil hd loiiger arise. As the Ftussian Amhassador last night eate^.? gorically reiterated fb the Prime Minister, M. Sultaneh, that the ufiednditi&fial eVaGUatioh will be cJOftipleted by MAy 6, aftd as the Ooverhment has edliiplete eonfideiice 'in the Russian pledge, Ma Ala has been instructed immediately to WithdrAW the ceffiplAifttU' Retlter's Teheran correspondent says that fresh and possibly startliflg develdpmetits ftiay follew Persia's deeision. Both official and unofficiai circles in Teheran reg&rd the de- ' cision AS f urfcher e^idence of a poiley of appeasement toWardsRiissia. Oiie pdssible seiuel Would be ihe strengthenirtg of the Azerbaijaii Prdvince's case fdr independettce.

ThO two liiernbdfs of the Hotise Of CoiiimortS, Mf. M. Dingle Foot (Labour) and Mr. Head (Conservarve), who have retdrned from Persia, where they went as observ- j ers for the Government, said they could not give their impressions as '

they wefe reporting to the Government. \ Mr, Foot said: "The Fefsian Government gave us every facility. We have seen people of every shade of puiitical opinion, and also nOnpoliticiaris. We have hot succeeded in our attertipts to get into Azerbaijan."