'File 4/10 B.B.C. broadcasts'

Title:

'File 4/10 B.B.C. broadcasts'

Date:

1947/1947

Description:

Abstract: The file contains an investigation into a news report on the radio, transmitted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (B.B.C.) Arabic Service on 10 August 1947, concerning the Sheikh of Kuwait’s visit to Saudi Arabia.The file includes: an English translation of the news broadcast, reporting an agreement between the Sheikhs of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and others to boycott Zionist goods and prohibit their transit through Saudi Arabia; a confidential exchange of letters about the inaccuracy of the news report, between Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway ( Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain) and the Commonwealth Relations Office, London; a letter from Donald Stephenson (Director of Eastern Services, B.B.C.) stating that the Arabic News Agency in Cairo had failed to indicate the speculative nature of the information provided.Physical description: Foliation: numbered 1 to 9 in pencil in the top right hand corner and encircled. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the first file enclosure (f.1) and ends on the inside cover at the back of the file (f.9). The front file cover is not foliated.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Propaganda
Public information
Intelligence operations
BBC Arabic Service
Adviser to the Government of Bahrain

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000241.0x00019a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x00019a_en
IOR/R/15/2/931
IOR/R/15/2/931

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