PZ 2405/41 'Question of Air Mail Bags during Iraq disturbances.'
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The file contains correspondence between the British Minister in Siam [Thailand] and the Foreign Office, regarding the sending of air mail bags while disturbances in Iraq cause an interruption of the air service.
The file contains a personal letter written by Captain Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Agent, Kuwait, providing impressions he formed of British/Iraqi relations after meeting Iraqi Government Officials, local Shaikhs and others informally while on shooting trips. The letter is forwarded, wi...
PZ 2556/41 'Anglo-Iraq Hostilities. German broadcast on Afghan attitude'
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The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, HM Minister at Kabul, the India Office and the Ministry of Information, regarding French and German radio broadcasts which stated that the Government of Afghanistan had warned Britain that they would enter the w...
PZ 2645/41 'Public Opinion in the Persian Gulf. Weekly telegraphic reports from the Political Resident.'
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This file mainly consists of weekly telegrams from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and His Majesty's Minister at Kabul respectively, reporting on the trend of public opinion in the Persian Gulf (specifically Bahrain, Koweit [Kuwait], and Muscat) and Afghanistan regarding the Second Wo...
PZ 2688/41 'Propaganda. Use of commercial channels for distribution of propaganda in Afghanistan and the Middle East.'
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The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, External Affairs Department, HM Minister at Kabul, the India Office and the Ministry of Information, regarding the possible use of commercial companies in India to distribute propaganda materials ...
Ext 2747/41 'Method to be adopted in Sending telegrams to the Gulf.'
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The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Secretary of State for India querying, and subsequently confirming, the security of sending cyphered telegrams to the Gulf by wireless.
Ext 2823/41 'Bahrain. Report of ban on export of gold & silver coinage. and subsequent smuggling.'
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The file contains correspondence regarding the imposition of an export licence system on the trade of gold and silver in the Persian Gulf region, at first to understand the flow of trade, and then to restrict it, lest gold find its way through Turkey into enemy-occupied destinations. Corresponde...
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Secretary of State for India, the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare, regarding a shortage of flour in Bahrein [Bahrain] caused by a lack of shipping space on v...