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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Language French Name League of Nations, 1920-1946

1. IOR/L/PS/10/673

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/673
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 2, 4-5 'Arms Traffic Convention.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, minutes, and reports concerning arms trafficking after the war. In particular, the correspondence is concerned with the ratification of the Arms Traffic Convention of 1919 (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) by the League of Na...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
21 Dec 1917-27 Sep 1924
Extent:

1 volume (472 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/674

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/674
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic - Convention'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the Arms Traffic Convention (1919). The papers include: The final text of the Arms Traffic Convention signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, containing the names of the signatory states, 10 September-23 October 1919; the opinions of the French and British governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Oct 1919-20 Jan 1921
Extent:
1 volume (343 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/911
Title:
File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1920-31 Dec 1924
Extent:

1 volume (377 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/919
Title:
File 5876/1920 ‘Mesopotamia:- King for. Question of suitability of Feisul; French protest against Feisul; Feisul proclaimed “King of Iraq”; Treaty with Feisul’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the election of Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Faisal and other variations in the volume] as King of Iraq, and negotiations leading to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922. Specific topics discussed include:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1920-1 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (497 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2848

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2848
Title:
Coll 17/4 'Iraq-Syria & Syria-Transjordan frontier: delimitation'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding negotiations to amend the borders between French-mandated Syria, and British-mandated Iraq and Trans-Jordan. The papers discuss the boundaries established by the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Treaty of Sèvres, the British push for the inclusion of Amadiyah within the Iraq mandat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jun 1921-27 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 volume (386 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2869

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2869
Title:
Coll 17/15(1) 'Perso-Iraq Relations: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers regarding relations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq. It primarily concerns the frontier delineated by the 1913-1914 Boundary Commission, in particular Persian claims over areas of the Shatt el-Arab, and rights to oilfields in the Naft Khana [Naft Khāna] or Khaniqin [Khā...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1933-15 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (476 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2870

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2870
Title:
Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of Collection 17/5, and contains papers regarding negotiations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the League of Nations in 1935, mediated by Italian delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The papers primarily consist of communications regarding the negotiations submitted to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Feb 1935-15 Jan 1936
Extent:
1 volume (502 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2874

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2874
Title:
Coll 17/16(3) 'The Assyrian Question'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2873, and contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933-1934. The papers concern the proposal to settle Assyrians on land owned by Paraná Plantations Limited in Brazil, and documents the negotiations between the League of Nations a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Nov 1933-17 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (598 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2875

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2875
Title:
Coll 17/16(4) 'Settlement of the Assyrians. Iraqi railways: agreement between HMG and Iraqi government'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2874. It contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933-1935. The papers cover the proposed scheme to resettle the Assyrians of Iraq in British Guiana, on land to be purchased from the Rupununi Company. Following a report by General B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Mar 1935-11 Nov 1937
Extent:
1 file (250 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3460

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3460
Title:
Coll 28/55 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Oil Company. Relations with Persian Govt.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the Persian Government’s annulment of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) concession in December 1932, and the ensuing diplomatic crisis between the two countries. The papers include: diplomatic exchanges between the British and Persian Governments an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
8 Aug 1932-14 Sep 1933
Extent:
1 volume (541 folios)