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Show 92 has been labelled the "Great Exodus". work and closed their open their looted if shops, saying that ''if this visited the British they took refugee expelled or few of them at a Legation once in the English Embassy twelve and fourteen thousand The refugees in the is to His threat was to no avail. representatives as of Affairs and asked "whether in the town, proceded encamped there" (Browne, 1910a:118). refugees in Charge in the British stopped done, [he· would] have them allowed to remain under its protection. assuring reply, and not were Tehran, certain merchants and trade guilds, people, in Tehran stayed prime minister ordered the people by his soldiers" (Browne, 1910a:118). In of the The shops. Those who In reported On to the a they would receiving be a re Legation garden week, the number of to have reached between (Malekzadeh, 1961). English Embassy and those who were is "bast" Qum, demanded the dismissal of the prime minister and, for the first time, the establishment of the House of Representatives ("Majlis") legislative organization The of the government (Kasravi, 1961). king, Muzaffaru'd-Din Shah, dismissed the prime minister and ordered the establishment of the House of (Royal Proclamation) The order protested on the classes of the the order was of August 5, read in the grounds that population (Shajiee , 1906 Representatives in the Farman (See Appendix A). English Embassy to the the order discriminated of Iran. 1965:77). as a refugees, but they against certain Thus, the refugees refused to accept |
