Coll 45/3 (1) 'Propaganda: Persian Gulf: Appointment of a Publicity Officer to the Gulf: Allowances, Pay, Budget, etc'
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This file contains correspondence on various aspects of the British Government's 'publicity' or propaganda policies in the Persian Gulf region from 8 May 1939 to 3 December 1948. The primary correspondents are as follows: the Secretary of State for India; the Political Resident in the Persian Gul...
Coll 45/3 (2) PROPAGANDA: PERSIAN GULF: Work of Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf (Public Relations Officer): Propaganda Material
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This file contains correspondence on the role of the Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf, specifically about material characterised as propaganda, from 13 June 1939 to 31 March 1948. The correspondence is primarily between the Secretary of State for India, Public Relations Officer in the Persi...
Copies of Telegrams between the Viceroy (Frederic Thesiger, The Lord Chelmsford), Secretary of State (Austen Chamberlain) and Sir Percy Zachariah Cox on the future administration of Mesopotamia, March to April 1917: Telegram P 1234 from Viceroy, Foreign Department, 26 March 1917: regarding the n...
Table giving abstracts of proposals made by the War Cabinet, with comments on those proposals by Sir Percy Zachariah Cox and the Government of India. The proposals include: Occupied territories being administered by His Majesty's Government, instead of the Government of India Basra to remain un...
Aden. Future administration and incidence of cost.
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Minutes, telegrams and a memorandum relating to the future administration of Aden and the costs incurred thereby, as follows: Minute by Mr Henry Fraser Howard, Controller of Finance, India Office (ff 120-125), in which he states the position before the First World War relating to the division of...
The file consists of a memorandum produced by Leonard Day Wakely (Secretary to the Political Department of the India Office) on the question of the administration of Aden. This incorporates Aden proper, the Aden Protectorate, and the territories of Yemen and Asir [ʻAsīr] governed by the Imam of ...
Document outlining the administration and history of Koweit [Kuwait] from 1908-1928. Covering: 'Administration' – rulers succession history; Koweit's status as an independent Arab state; internal administration conducted by the Shaikh and Council of Advisors; control by the Government of India;...
Document outlining the administration and history of Bahrein [Bahrain] from 1908-28. Covering: administration – control by the Government of India and titular Shaikh of the Islands, Bahrein's status as an independent Arab State, internal administration conducted by the Shaikh and a European Fina...
Document outlining the administration and history of Muscat from 1908-28. Covering: administration – Sultan of Oman succession history; treaty relations; internal administration by Council of Ministers; role of the Political Agent, Muscat; and the responsibility for expenditure; 1908 to 4 Octobe...
Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain
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Despatch from the Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, 28 August 1929. Printed in October 1929. Covering: a brief history of the development of British concern in the internal af...
