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71. IOR/L/PS/12/3804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3804
Title:
Coll 30/86(3) 'PERSIA. Relations with Iraq: Shatt-el-Arab. Establishment of an International Conservancy Board.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the possibility of establishing an international Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab) between the governments of Iraq, Iran (also referred to as Persia), and the United Kingdom. The board was intended to ensure the efficient maintenan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1937-5 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file, in 2 parts (329 folios)

72. IOR/L/PS/12/3908

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3908
Title:
Coll 30/171 'Koweit: Iranian population of Koweit. Iraqi interest.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a request by the Government of Iraq to establish the precise numbers of the Shiah population in Kuwait (also referred to as Koweit). This information is given in a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle) to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1938-3 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

73. IOR/L/PS/12/4486

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4486
Title:
Coll 44/6(S) 'War. Defence, Protective and other measures. Iraq:- Military co-operation between U.K. and Iraq in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the military co-operation between Britain and Iraq during the Second World War including:A query (ff 207-208) from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to the extent of aid that they could expect from Britain in event of the outbreak of war with ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 March 1938-10 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (208 folios)

74. IOR/L/PS/12/4505

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4505
Title:
Coll 44/26 ‘War. (Defense, Protective and other Measures) Censorship restrictions in the Persian Gulf.’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to censorship restrictions on telegrams in the Persian Gulf, during the Second World War. The correspondence discusses: The Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) branch of Cable and Wireless receiving orders from Head Office not to send or accep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1939-18 Jan 1944
Extent:

1 file (88 folios)

75. IOR/L/PS/12/4507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4507
Title:
Coll 44/28 ‘Saudi Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud towards the European War, 1939.’
Scope & Content:
The papers relate mainly to a discussion held in July 1940 by the War Cabinet Official Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East on the neutrality of Saudi Arabia under Ibn Saud [Ibn Sa‘ūd, or ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] during the Second World War. The main iss...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1940-6 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

76. IOR/L/PS/12/4790

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4790
Title:
Coll 56/5 'Pakistan Foreign Policy. Relations with Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern Pakistan's relations with Iraq. A letter from British Ambassador to Iraq William Henry Bradshaw Mack to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Ernest Bevin, discusses the views of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, on communism and Zionism. Also included is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1949-2 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

77. IOR/R/15/1/388

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/388
Title:
File 26/185 V (F 96) Shaikh of Mohammerah
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence pertaining to the relatives of the late Shaikh of Khuzestan, Khaz‘al Āl Ka‘bī. The correspondents include the Political Resident at Bahrain, Political Agent at Kuwait, Government of India, Foreign Office, India Office, British Ambassador in Tehran, British Amba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
17 Nov 1939-16 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 volume (233 folios)

78. IOR/R/15/1/468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/468
Title:
File 45/23 I (D 140) Kuwait Reforms
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the formation of a Legislative Council in Kuwait following unrest among its people and criticism of its government in the Iraqi press. Included are newspaper articles, a list of the names of those elected to the Legislative Council of Kuwait (folio ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1938-19 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

79. IOR/R/15/1/554

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/554
Title:
File 60/20 I (C 93) Imperial Bank of Iran: Bahrain, etc
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to banking in Persia, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Ministry in Tehran, the Government of India, High Commissioner in Iraq (later the British Ambassador), Political Residency in Bushire, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Jan 1918-Feb 1946
Extent:
1 volume (201 folios)

80. IOR/R/15/1/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/669
Title:
Confidential 86/5-III. Vol. D.172 Hasa oil
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, primarily between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Government of India, and the Secretary of State for India regarding progress being made by the Standard Oil Company of California (later Arabian-American Oil Comp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1939-30 Nov 1945
Extent:
1 volume (251 folios)