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37. Coll 17/7(1) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway'
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence, reports and minutes regarding road and rail transport through Iraq, Trans-Jordan [Jordan], Palestine, Syria and Iran. The following topics are discussed in detail:The proposed construction of a Baghdad-Haifa rail route. The file also includes records regarding the planned transfer of the Iraqi Government Railway from British to Iraqi control.Transport developments and trade routes in Syria, and economic competition between French- and British- mandated territories in the region.Proposals for the development of free zones at the port in Haifa, for Iraqi and Persian [Iranian] goods. This includes discussion of customs dues, and facilities to be offered to foreign governments.Proposals by Haim Effendi Nathaniel, the Iraqi Railways Canvassing Agent, for facilities to assist in the development of a trans-desert motor route between Iraq and Palestine, and the right to carry Iraqi mails via the Amman ['Ammān] route.Customs and Trade Agreements between French-mandated territories and Iran.The principal authors and correspondents are: HM High Commissioner for Palestine; HM High Commissioner for Iraq; the Foreign Office Eastern Department; the Secretary of State for the Colonies; HM Minister at Tehran; and the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Ministerial and Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. The volume also contains a small number of communications received from the Government of Iraq.The volume contains the following items of note:Minutes of a meeting between the Iraqi Treasurer and Haim Effendi Nathaniel, regarding the Baghdad-Haifa Desert Motor Route, held on the 18 January 1933, ff 425-428.Records of a meeting between the Treasurer, the Iraqi Delegation, and the Director of Customs at Palestine, regarding the proposed free zone facilities at Haifa for Iraqi goods, and the establishment of terminal facilities and a preferential tariff, ff 371-392.Draft minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Ministerial and Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, held Monday 17 July 1933, regarding: 1) the proposed pipeline from the British Oil Development Company's concession near Mosul to the Mediterranean, and 2) the Trans-Desert Railway from Baghdad to Haifa. Plus related despatches received from Baghdad, Aleppo and Beirut, notes on the strategic value of the Baghdad-Haifa railway by the Secretaries of State for Air and War, ff 326-357.Communication from the High Commissioner for Iraq (Francis Henry Humphrys) to the Foreign Secretary (John Simon), summarising the development of road and rail transport routes between Iraq, Syria and Palestine from 1925-1934, ff 247-249.English translation of the Decree of the French High Commissioner in Syria, 'Governing the Regime of Customs Exemptions granted to Transdesert Transport Concerns maintaining regular services of the transport of international transport goods', ff 222-236.Minutes of meetings of the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Ministerial and Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, held 11 and 23 October 1934, regarding the proposed Baghdad-Haifa route, ff 139-177, 90-107, and 70-89.Memorandum on the Baghdad-Damascus desert route, prepared by the Commercial Secretary to the Baghdad Embassy, 1935, ff 5-10.The volume also contains a proposal by the Palestine Corporation Limited to construct a highway connecting Palestine and Iraq, found at folios 14-30. This proposal is discussed in depth in the second part of the file, IOR/L/PS/12/2852.The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 526; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
38. Coll 17/7(2) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway'
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- Abstract: This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2851, and concerns the decision not to proceed with the proposed Haifa-Baghdad railway, but to focus on the improvement of road communications.The file consists of reports on the proposals submitted by the Palestine Corporation Limited (see IOR/L/PS/12/2851 ff 14-30), and alternative proposals and surveys submitted by the War Office, the Air Ministry, and the Director of Public Works for Trans-Jordan. The reports were submitted as evidence to the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Ministerial and Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, and appear in the file alongside the Committee minutes, as follows:Record of a meeting held at the Colonial Office on 15 February 1935, to consider the improvement of road communication between Haifa and Baghdad, ff 126-133.Report of the War Office on the military requirements for the road, ff 142-147.Report on the Mafraq Road submitted by T T Taylor, Engineer in Charge, Nazareth, ff 154-156.'Preliminary Report on the Section of Haifa Bagdad Road in Transjordan', by Mr Ghorayeb, Director of Public Works, Trans-Jordan, ff 157-213.Minutes of the Forty-seventh Meeting of the Sub-Committee held at 2 July 1936, regarding the Baghdad-Haifa Road, ff 114-121.Records submitted for the Forty-eight Meeting of the Sub-Committee, comprising Air Ministry Proposals and Estimated Costs, copies of despatches between the Colonial Office and the High Commissioner for Palestine, and a War Office Report and Estimated Cost prepared by Major R Briggs, ff 22-109.Note by the Secretary of the Sub-Committee, providing a summary of the proposed Haifa-Baghdad road scheme, ff 3-21.Folio 21 is a 'General Map of Pipe Line Routes & Environs', and was to be appended to the War Office Report.The file also contains correspondence regarding the proposals, between the High Commissioner for Palestine and Trans-Jordan, the War Office, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 247; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-247; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
39. File 13/11 'Registration of Foreigners - Kuwait'
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- Abstract: The file contains Kuwait Political Agency papers regarding the registration of foreigners.It mainly consists of correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain [the latter is ‘Prodrome’ in the telegrams]. It also includes letters from the Political Agent, Kuwait, to the Kuwait Oil Company and other companies. The correspondence relates to:the Kuwait Security Department Notification that all foreigners residing in Kuwait are required to register at the Travelling and Residence Office, and the question as to whether or not this applies to foreigners who come under British jurisdiction under the terms of the Kuwait Order in Councilthe validity of Palestinian passports after the termination of the Mandatethe registration of British subjects and foreigners under Part VI of the Order in Council by the Kuwait Political AgencyThe file includes a letter in Arabic, a copy of the Kuwait Security Department Notification in Arabic (there is also a copy in English), and an 'Application for permission to stay (or extension of stay) in Kuwait' form in English and Arabic.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 36; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Previous foliation sequences, which are also circled, have been superseded and therefore crossed out.
40. File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
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- Abstract: The item comprises correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration in territories that were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War. The item includes: reports on exploratory drilling being undertaken by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah], in territory transferred from Persia [Iran] to Mesopotamia [Iraq] in 1914 in response to recommendations made by the Turco-Persian Boundary Commission; the question of whether APOC drilling activity at Naft Khana should be paid for out of military funds, given Britain’s military occupation and administration of Mesopotamia during and after the First World War; oil concessions in Mesopotamia in relation to the San Remo Oil Agreement (1920), signed between the British and French Governments; a 1920 survey report by the APOC geologist, William Robert Smellie, entitled ‘Oil in relation to Fars anticlines’ (ff 132-139), and a response by the Officiating Director of the Geological Survey of India, Edwin Hall Pascoe, that disagrees with Smellie’s findings (ff 100-101); British Government policy on mining and oil prospecting in Palestine; and correspondence exchanged between representatives of the Government of the United States and the Foreign Office, relating to the refusal to permit American companies to conduct oil surveys in Mesopotamia.The item’s principal correspondence are: the Foreign Office; HM Petroleum Executive, the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, Arnold Talbot Wilson; and representatives of the Government of the United States.The item includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: 1 item (242 folios)
41. File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
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- Abstract: The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletinproduced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘Arab movement’; the bulletins cover a wide range of topics and key personalities.The volume contains the following maps:A map of Central Arabia showing St John Philby's route from Uqair to Jidda 17 November to 31 December 1917: folio 103.Sketch map prepared from RNAS photographs and reconnaissance by HMS City of Oxfordof Wadi Mur February to March 1918 : folio 170.Sketch map of Hejaz (1919): folio 317.Tribal sketch map of the Hadhramaut ‘showing only tribes of fighting value’: folios 333v.Towards the back of the volume is a small amount of correspondence respecting the distribution of Notes on the Middle East; the Arab Bulletinwas superseded by this publication. Copies of numbers 3-4 of this publication can also be found at the back of the volume.Tables of content can be found at the front of each issue. A small amount of content is in French.Physical description: Condition: the edges of some of the folios towards the back of the volume have suffered damage to their edges due to general wear and tear. The affected folios are 389-390, 407-409, and 412.Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 413; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front cover and the leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 357-363 and ff 374-412 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
42. File 5122/1921 'PERSIA:- ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN THE PERSIAN PRESS.'
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- Abstract: This volume contains minutes, letters, memoranda, and reports relating to articles, pamphlets, and newspapers identified as promoting anti-British propaganda by officials and diplomatic representatives of HM Government in Qajar Persia [Qājār Iran]. The papers notably cover the following subjects:The punishment, encouraged by Britain and often violent and severe, of members of the press in Persia by the Persian Government, including incidents involving the editors of the Tehran press (probably a reference to the Shafagh Sorkh[ Shafaq-i Surkh]) and the newspapers Hayat[ Ḥayāt] and Toofan[ Ṭūfān]Objections made to the Central Zionist Committees in Persia and Palestine concerning the anti-British tone of the Jewish newspaper, Hahaim[ Ha-Ḥayīm], which 'ostentatiously refrained' from endorsing celebrations for the approval of the 'Palestine Mandate' by the League of NationsThe pilgrimage to the Shrine [of Imām Mūsá al-Riz̤āʾ] at Meshed [Mashhad] made by two leading Shiah [Shīʿah] mujtahids [Islamic legal authorities] who had been expelled from British Iraq, their anti-British activities and publications, as well as their surveillance by the British with the help of officials of the Persian Government and religious leaders in the regionDiscussion of the question of British diplomatic withdrawal as a response to anti-British activities and public sentiment, including how this might affect their vested interests, particularly in oil and bankingThe position of the Qajar Prime Minister Kawam-es-Saltaneh [Aḥmad Qivām Qivām al-Mulk Qivām al-Salṭanah] and his attitudes towards the Bolshevik [Soviet] presence and influence in PersiaThe proposal for a pro-British propaganda campaign in Persia, funded by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and designed to counter what is considered to be Soviet-sponsored anti-British sentiment in much of the country's pressThe use by anti-British propagandists in Shiraz of the 'extremist press' of [British] India, such as the newspaper Zemindar[ Zamīndār], published in Lahore; British efforts to prosecute the paper's editor and proprietor, as well as suppressing its importation into PersiaThe critical response to, and parody of, a speech about Persia given by Lord Curzon in the House of Lords on 26 July 1921, in a pamphlet, written in French, entitled 'Setareh Iran: Curzon et la Perse' (folios 159-175)Discussion by British officials of the coverage in the Persian-language newspaper Sitarah-e-Iran[ Sitārah-yi Īrān; also written as, Sitara-i-Iran, Setare-i-Iran, and Sétareh Iran] of the Swadeshi campaign to boycott British-made goods, championed at the time by Mr Ghandi [Mohandas Gandhi].Correspondents mainly include: Political and Secret Department, India Office; Prime Minister, President of the Council of Ministers and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Government of Persia; Minister of War, Government of Persia; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London; Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London; Under-Secretary of State for India, London; HM High Commissioner, Baghdad; HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia, Tehran; Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Tehran and London.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject and file number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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