PZ 1230/34 Japan: possibility of agreement with Germany; Italo-German-Japanese agreement 1936-37 (Anti-Comintern Pact); further references to agreement 1938
PZ 2006/34 'The Hadhramaut: Attitude of Ibn Saud towards - shipping at Port of Bir Ali'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between British officials relating to political and religious activity in Hedjaz [Saudi Arabia] and Batavia [Jakarta] by Arab merchants and other notables originating from opposing factions in the Hadhramaut [Hadramawt] region of the Aden Protectorate [Yemen]. Th...
PZ 2080/34 Persian Gulf: movements of Mr Insull the American financier; question of extradition rights in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains two internal advice notes made by officials in the Political Department of the India Office, London in 1934, relating to the exercise of British extradition powers in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, for fugitive criminals of a foreign state. The first note mentions the Extr...
PZ 2391/34 'Utilisation of the waters of a river flowing through two States. F.O. Confidential Memorandum. Iraq Govt's request for copy'
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of letters in April 1934 between India Office officials and Mr Stephen Gaselee, the Foreign Office Librarian, about acceding to the Iraqi Government’s request for a copy of the ‘Memorandum respecting the Utilisation of the Waters of a River flowing through two State...
The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments ...
PZ 2775/34 ‘Mrs Margaret Howson – Application for financial assistance towards maintenance and outfit of her son, WR Howson, King’s India cadet at Sandhurst’
Scope & Content:
The file contains mainly correspondence and notes by India Office officials, relating to the applications of Mrs Margaret Howson, widow of a former British Consul at Bandar Abbas who died in 1918, for the grant of additional financial assistance from the Government of India in the 1930s, on groun...