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229. Coll 17/15(3) 'Relations with Persia: Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration'
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- Abstract: Communications from HM Ambassador to Tehran and HM Ambassador to Iraq, reporting on the signing and ratification of the Treaty and Protocol of Frontiers (4 July 1937), the Treaty of Friendship and Arbitration (18 July 1937), and the Treaty for the Settlement of Differences by Peaceful Means (24 July 1937). Copies of the Treaty of Friendship, and the Iraqi ratification law, can be found at folios 25-27 and 21-22. The file also contains a record of a conversation between HM Military Attaché Tehran (Colonel Pybus) and the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs (Dr Naji el-Asil), plus correspondence with the Government of India External Affairs Department regarding the supply of copies of the Frontière Turco-Persan Cartes Supplémentaires to the Government of Iraq.The file contains 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 1).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 37; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
230. Coll 17/29 'Iraq. Relations with Syria.'
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- Abstract: The file contains papers relating to relations between Iraq and Syria, specifically: the ‘Bon-Voisinage’ Agreement between the two countries signed on 24 April 1937; and the Government of Iraq opening a Consulate in Aleppo [in Syria].The papers are mostly letters to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden, Viscount Halifax) from the following: Archibald Clark Kerr, HM Ambassador to Iraq; Gilbert MacKereth (with enclosures), HM Consul Damascus; and A W Davies, HM Consul, Aleppo.The file includes the official text of the ‘Bon-Voisinage’ Agreement in French (folios 7 to 8, this is an enclosure to a letter from MacKereth to Eden).The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 10; 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 2-9; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
231. Coll 17/2 'Arabia (Yemen). Relations between Iraq & Yemen. Treaty of Friendship.'
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- Abstract: Papers regarding relations between Iraq and Yemen, from the Iraqi Mission to Yemen in 1931, the subsequent Treaty of Friendship agreed between the two countries, and the eventual accession of Yemen to the Iraqi-Saudi Treaty of Arab Brotherhood and Alliance. The file includes the following treaties and related documents:English translation of the Treaty of Friendship between the Kingdoms of Iraq and Yemen, signed in Sana'a on 11 May 1931, ff 116-117.English translation of a report on the work of the Iraqi Mission to the Yemen, written by General Taha Hashimi (Chief of the Iraq General Staff), ff 98-112.Booklet providing texts of the Treaty of Friendship between the Kingdoms of Iraq and Yemen, and of the Ratifications exchanged at Baghdad on 26 April 1932, printed by the Iraqi Government Press in English and Arabic, ff 78-81.English translation of an article appearing in Umm al-QuraNo. 679, 7 Shawwal 1356 [10 December 1937], on the 'Ratification of the Saudi-Iraqi-Yemeni Treaty of Arab Alliance', ff 17-18.English translation of the 'Arbitration Covenant between the Saudi Arab Kingdom and the Kingdom of Yemen', ff 13-15.English translation of the 'Instrument of Accession of the Kingdom of the Yemen to the Treaty of Arab Brotherhood and Alliance between Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia', ff 7-12.Note submitted by the British Legation at Jedda, comparing the Yemeni accession agreement to the Saudi-Iraq treaty, ff 34-38.The file also includes correspondence between the HM Embassy at Baghdad, HM Legation at Jedda, the India Office Political Department, and the Foreign Office, regarding: a proposal to establish an Iraqi Legation to the Yemen; tensions between the King of Yemen and Ibn Sa'ūd; Iraqi concerns over Soviet and Italian influence in Yemen; and the provision of training in Iraq for Yemeni army cadets and trainee teachers.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 133; 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 2-132; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
232. Coll 20/2 'Administration: Question of abdication of Sultan; Succession and Subsidies; Question of abrogation of treaties with USA and France'
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- Abstract: The file contains letters, telegrams, minutes, and draft correspondence related to the abdication of Sultan Taimur bin Faisal of Muscat [Taymūr bin Fayṣal Āl Bū Sa‘īd] and the accession of his son, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd] in 1932. The early correspondence concerns efforts to prevent Taimur from abdicating and to improve Muscat's flagging economy. Once the abdication is accepted several questions are raised and discussed, including:the suitability of a successor and the arrangements for the accession of his son, Saidwhether to continue both the Arms Traffic and Zanzibar Subsidy payments (this question is raised again in 1948)the renegotiation of Muscat's treaties with the French, Americans, and the tribes of Oman's interiorwhether to continue Taimur's personal allowanceSultan Said's changes to governmentFurther correspondence within the file deals with the following matters:requests for statistical information about Muscat from the Danish government for their yearbook in 1934 and 1935a plea from Kamile Ilgiray, an ex-wife of former Sultan Taimur, to the British Government for help with her son's educationthe question of the best time to inform the French, American, and Dutch governments of Sultan Said's successionthe whereabouts of former Sultan Taimur, including his visits to Saudi Arabia in 1933 and Japan in 1939.The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Agent in Muscat, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Government of India (Foreign Department), India Office, and Foreign Office. Further correspondence is from Sultans Taimur and Said, the French and Indian Governments, and several British political and diplomatic offices in Europe and the Middle East.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 378; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
233. Coll 20/3 'Muscat: Relations with H. M. G.; Commercial Treaty: Renewal'
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- Abstract: The volume contains letters, telegrams, minutes and draft correspondence relating to the renewal of the Anglo-Muscat Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondence connected to the annual renewal of the treaty for the years 1931-38 and the forwarding of copies of the renewal agreement to various offices of the British Government.The volume also covers the insertion of a clause in the agreement to allow for the Union of South Africa, a British Dominion, to withdraw from the treaty.From April 1937 much of the correspondence concerns the Sultan's wish to revise the 1891 treaty and the subsequent negotiations. No conclusion of these negotiations is covered by the volume.The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Muscat, Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Government of India (Foreign Department), India Office, and Foreign Office. Further correspondence is from the Dominions Office, Colonial Office, and the Sultan of Muscat, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 243; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
234. Coll 20/3(3) 'Muscat: Relations with HMG: Commercial Treaty, Revision of'
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- Abstract: The file contains letters, telegrams, minutes, and draft correspondence relating to the revision of the Anglo-Muscat Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891. The papers cover the finalisation and signing of the new treaty on 5 February 1939. The majority of the file covers the final adjustments to the wording and grammar of the text of the treaty which the India Office carried out in consultation with the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Dominions Office, Board of Trade, Government of India, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Sultan Said bin Taimur of Muscat [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd].The file also contains correspondence relating to the following matters:the question of extra-territorial jurisdiction over subjects of British Dominions in Muscat, specifically those of the Union of South Africanotes on translationarrangements for the printing and distribution of the final text of the treatypreparations for the signing and ratification of the treaty, including the Political Resident's need for a personal sealthe composition of a communiqué for the pressthe customary publication of letters relating to the signing of the treatythe question of the application of the terms of the treaty to an independent India and Pakistan, including a note on British-Indian subjects residing in Muscat by Major Andrew Charles Stewart of the Political Agency, Muscat (folios 24-25).Other more minor matters covered by the file include:a Home Office request for a provision for control of dangerous drugs to be added to the treatythe need for the Sultan's formal consent to the appointment of Captain Tom Hickinbotham as Political Agent in Muscatnotice given to the Sultan of the territories to which the treaty is applicablethe Political Resident's (William Rupert Hay) wish to import fish manure from Muscat to Ceylon.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 346; 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 267-281; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
235. Coll 1/21 'The Resident: leave and acting arrangements; duties of Civil Secretary'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding leave arrangements for Government officials in Aden, including the Resident (later Chief Commissioner, and then Governor), the Assistant Residents, the Protectorate Secretary, the Civil Secretary, and the District Magistrate. The following topics are discussed: the temporary secondment of officials to cover positions; the pay and allowances due to officials assuming temporary positions to cover leave; the proportion of funds to be contributed by the India Office and the Colonial Office; and the suitability of officials for particular posts.The correspondence dated between 1932-1933 also contains references to the treaty negotiations conducted between the Resident (Sir Bernard Reilly) and the Imam of Yemen. Correspondence dated between 1934-1935 contains references to the transfer of the civil administration of the Aden Protectorate from the Government of India to the Colonial Office.The principal correspondents are: the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor); the India Office Political Department (John Charles Walton, Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite); the Colonial Office (Hubert Russell Cowell, F J Howard, Kenneth William Blaxter), and the Foreign and Political Department, Government of India (William Kerr Fraser-Tytler).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 (folios 1-2).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 442; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
236. Coll 1/22 'Payments to Tribal Chiefs'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding the stipends and pensions paid to tribal chiefs in the Aden Protectorate. The majority of the payments were established by treaty, and were paid to maintain trade routes. Government funding for Darbar presents is also discussed.The following agreements and events are documented in the file:additional payments to be made to the Sultan Sir Abdul Karim Fadhl Ali of Lahej under the terms of the 1882 treaty for the purchase of Shaikh Othman [Ash Shaykh 'Uthmān], for water and salt rights compensation;a statement showing stipendiaries in receipt of territorial and political pensions in the Aden Protectorate, as of September 1927 (f 93);a statement giving the names of heads of tribes to whom pensions are payable from the Aden Treasury, as of September 1927 (f 94);a statement showing the monthly stipends paid to Arab Chiefs in the Aden Protectorate (f 86);letters regarding the provision for the entertainment of envoys and chiefs, and the Darbar presents grant, to be included in the Vote for Middle Eastern Services (1928);an application for financial assistance received from Shaikh Salim bin Saleh, Chief of the Dhubi Tribe of the Upper Yafai, plus the opinion of the Resident that the request should not be granted;the payment of a personal monthly allowance to Mohamed Ali Mohsin, successor of the Ruling Nakid of the Mausatta Clan of Upper Yafa, as thanks for services rendered to the Aden Boundary Commission.There is correspondence throughout the file regarding a claim by Sultan 'Omar bin 'Awadh ['Umar bin 'Awadh Al Qu'ayti], Sultan of Shehr and Mukalla, for the payment of arrears in a stipend not claimed by him from 1922-1932, and also for that not drawn by his predecessor Sultan Ghalib bin 'Awadh, from Oct 1917 until 1922. Following discussion it is decided to pay the arrears for 1922-1932, and that in future it will only be possible to claim payment in arrears covering the term of one year. This correspondence includes a summary of the treaty arrangements in the Aden Protectorate, and the importance of Mukalla to the British.The following deaths and successions, and the approval of the continuation of stipends, are documented within the file:the death of Shaikh 'Abdunnabi bin 'Ali Nasir, Shaikh of the Alawi Tribe, and the succession of Shaikh Muhsin bin Ali Nashir (ff 43-45);the death of Shaikh Salih bin 'Awadh, Shaikh of the Rija'i section of the Subeihi Tribe, and the succession of his son, Shaikh Ahmed bin Salih bin 'Awad (ff 31-33);the death of Sultan Muhsin bin 'Ali Mana of the Haushabi Tribe, and the succession of Sultan Sarur bin Muhammad Al Fajjari (ff 28-30);the death of Shaikh Mutahar Mana', the Saqladi Shaikh of the Sha'ibi Tribe, and the succession of Shaikh Muhammad Muqbil Mutahar Mana' As Saqladi (ff 26-27);the abdication of Sharif Ahemd Am Muhsin of Beihan, in favour of his grandson Salib bin Husein (ff 17-18);the death of Shaikh Fadhl Ba 'Abdullah Ba Haidara Mehdi Al Agrabi, and election of his son Muhammad Fadhl (ff 15-16);the death of Shaikh Ahmed bin Awadth Ba Das, Shaikh of Irqa, and the succession of his grandson Shaikh Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Ahmed bin Awadth (ff 13-14);the death of Sultan 'Umar bin Awadh al Qu'ayti of Shehr and Mukalla, and the succession of Sultan Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib Al Qu'ayṭī (ff 9-11);the death of 'Abdullah bin Husein, Sultan of the Fadhli Tribe, and the succession of his son Salih bin 'Abdulla (f 4).The primary correspondents are: the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, later Governor); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Sir William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Treasury Office, Aden (C A Falconer); the Political Secretary, Aden (Reginald Stuart Champion); the Treasury (Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins); and Sultan 'Omar bin 'Awadh, Sultan of Shehr and Mukalla.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 1).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 98; 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.
237. Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, treaties and other papers, reporting on commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Russia. The papers cover: a deterioration in relations between Persia and Russia in 1932-33, culminating in the ban on Russian imports into Persia; the Persian Government’s Foreign Trade Monopoly Act of 1933 (ff 218-223); the Irano-Soviet Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation, agreed between the two nations in 1935; a copy of the treaty in French (ff 101-106); a further printed copy of the treaty in French and Russian (ff 42-85); the termination of the 1935 treaty in 1938; the agreement of a new Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940, created in response to events in the Second World War (ff 3-7).The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull Hugesson, Horace James Seymour; the British Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, Victor Alexander Louis Mallet; the Commercial Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran, Sydney Simmonds; HM’s Ambassador to Russia, the Viscount Chilston, Aretas Akers-Douglas; Noel Hughes Havelock Charles of the British Embassy in Moscow.The file includes several items in French, being newspaper cuttings and texts from the Persian newspapers Le Messager de Teheranand Le Journal de Tehran.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 240; 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.
238. Coll 28/57 ‘Persia. Perso-Turkish relations; Treaty of Friendship & Security’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and papers concerning relations between Persia [Iran] and Turkey. Subjects covered include: the signing of treaties of friendship and neutrality between the two nations in 1932; the proposed visit of the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] to Angora [Ankara] in 1934; the visit of a Turkish delegation to Persia in 1936, for talks on a number of issues including security, frontiers, judicial assistance, extradition, commerce and customs; newspaper cuttings from Le Journal de Tehran, dated 1937, reproducing a number of treaties, conventions and agreements between the Governments of Persia and Turkey, for ratification in the Persian parliament (ff 22-38); the rectification of the Perso-Turkish frontier, including a report by J P G Finch (with map) entitled ‘Turco-Iranian Frontier: Rectifications of January, 1932, and May, 1937, in the area of Marbishu [Mārmīshū]’ (ff 9-15).The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen, and Horace James Seymour; HM’s Ambassador to Turkey, George Russell Clerk and Percy Lyham Loraine. The file contains a number of items written in French, being copies of treaties and communiqués exchanged between the Governments of Turkey and Persia.The file 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: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 78; 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.
239. Coll 28/30 ‘Persia; Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Improved Control of: Proposed Indo-Persian Extradition Treaty’
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- Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to controls on cross-border movements and extradition measures on the frontier between Persia [Iran] and India (specifically British Baluchistan, part of present-day Pakistan), discussed between the British Government, Government of India, and Persian Government. The papers refer to a number of cross-border incidents, including murders and robbery committed in Persian territory, in which the perpetrators subsequently absconded into British Baluchistan. The papers include British protests to the Persian Government, in response to incursions by Persian levies into British territories, and correspondence exchanged between British officials, indicating a reluctance to sign an extradition treaty with Persia.The file’s principal correspondents include: the British Legation at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive; Reginald Hervey Hoare; Charles Dodd); representatives of the Persian Government, including the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi); the British Consul at Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly); the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan (Alexander Norman Ley Cater); the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India (Evelyn Berkeley Howell).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 241; 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.
240. Coll 30/25 'Persian Gulf: Treaties and Agreements between H.M.G. and Arab Chiefs and Rulers; Supply of Copies to Ibn Saud and the Italian Govt.'
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- Abstract: This volume contains correspondence between British officials concerning a number of requests to be sent copies of various treaties agreed between Britain and rulers/states in the Persian Gulf.In addition to this correspondence, the volume also contains copies of many of the treaties that are discussed (some of which are in both English and Arabic) as follows:'Exclusive Agreement of the Chief of Abu Dhabi with the British Government, dated the 6th March, 1892' (folio 53)'Agreement of 23rd January 1899 with Ruler of Kuwait' (folios 54-55)'Exclusive Agreeemnt of the Shaikh of Bahrein with the British Government, dated the 13th March, 1892' (folios 56)'Text of Treaty, dated November 3, 1916, and ratified on March, 23, 1918, with Sheikh Abdullah-bin-Jasim-bin-Thani of El Katr' (folios 57-60)'Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation Between Great Britain and Muscat - 1891. Signed at Muscat. March 19th - 1891. Ratifications were exchanged in 1892' (folios 61-74)'Agreement Regarding the Cession of Territory by the Sultan of Oman, Dated 20th March, 1891' (folio 75-76)'Extract from Treaty of Erzurum concluded between Persia and Turkey on May 31st, 1847' in French (folios 77-78)'Memorandum on Certain Aspects of the Situation in the Persian Gulf as between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, the Government of India, and the Persian Government' (folios 102-103)'Precis of the Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf' September 29 1928 (folios 106-108)'Memorandum on British Commitments to the Sheikh of Mavia' (folios 179-181)'Idrisi Treaty - Text of Treaty of April 30th, 1915' (folios 184-185)'Treaties and Agreements between the British Government and Certain Arab Rulers and Agreements Between the Said Rulers InterSe Affecting the British Government' Manager of India Press, Calcutta, 1926 (folios 186-210).The volume includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 210; 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.