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191. IOR/L/PS/12/3894B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3894B
Title:
Coll 30/158A 'Koweit: Administration and Finances. Financial Adviser for Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the administration and finances of the state of Koweit [Kuwait], and in particular the proposed appointment of a British Financial Adviser to the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], a role similar to that of Charles Dalrymple Belgrave in Bahrain. This was against...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jul 1946-5 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (72 folios)

192. IOR/L/PS/12/3895

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3895
Title:
Coll 30/159 'Ownership of Hawar Islands.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the disputed claims of the rulers of Bahrain and Qatar to sovereignty over the Hawar Islands. The issue arose afresh in 1936 in response to a request from Petroleum Concessions Limited to settle the issue of ownership, in order that the Company could claim oil concession rights...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1936-15 Oct 1942
Extent:
1 file (179 folios)

193. IOR/L/PS/12/3896A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3896A
Title:
Coll 30/160(S) 'C.I.D. Sub Committee for questions concerning Middle East: Measures to influence minor powers & Arab States whose assistance might be of value in time of war.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Committee of Imperial Defence (CID) Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions concerning the Middle East. The Sub-Committee had been charged by the Committee of Imperial Defence to 'investigate and report on the measures which might be taken, either b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Apr 1938-18 Feb 1942
Extent:
1 file (338 folios)

194. IOR/L/PS/12/3896B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3896B
Title:
Coll 30/160 Pt II(S) 'C.I.D. Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Measures to influence Minor Powers & Arab States whose assistance might be of Value in time of war. (Bushire Secret-Service Grant)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the India Office, the Government of India External Affairs Department, HM Treasury, and the Foreign Office concerning the level of the secret service grant of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf for 1946-47. The grant had been paid by the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1945-15 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

195. IOR/L/PS/12/3897

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3897
Title:
Coll 30/160(2) 'Measures to influence minor Powers & Arab States in time of War. Deputation of British Officer to RIYADH. (Capt G. S. de Gaury).'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the appointment of Captain Gerald Simpson Hillairet Rutland Vere de Gaury (formerly, the Political Agent, Kuwait) as Political Officer at Riyadh (1939-40). The appointment of a Political Officer, under the orders of HM Minister, Jedda, was proposed in 1939 as a special measure ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1939-21 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (139 folios)

196. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

197. IOR/L/PS/12/3899

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3899
Title:
Coll 30/161 'Oil: Petroleum Developments in the Arabian Peninsula.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the preparation of the following Foreign Office confidential print: 'Note on Petroleum Developments in the Arabian Peninsula. (Prepared in the Petroleum Department, June 1938)', dated 11 June 1938. The file includes the original Petroleum Department version of the paper, dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1938-6 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

198. IOR/L/PS/12/3900

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3900
Title:
Coll 30/163 'Boundaries of Persian territory: Status of the islands Tumb, Little Tumb, Abu Musa, Farur, Little Farur and Sirri.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the territorial status of a number of islands in the Persian Gulf. The issue arose in response to a request from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited to the Foreign Office in 1938 concerning the extent of Iranian (generally referred to as Persian) territory, in order that the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1938-19 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

199. IOR/L/PS/12/3901

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3901
Title:
Coll 30/164 'Oil: Oil Concesssions on the Trucial Coast:- Kalba.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the signing of the Kalba oil concession. The concession consisted of the commercial agreement between Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmad bin Sultan [Khālid bin Aḥmad bin Sulṭān Āl Qasimī], Regent of Kalba, and Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, signed on 20 December 1938 (co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1938-17 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

200. IOR/L/PS/12/3902

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3902
Title:
Coll 30/165 'Bahrein (and Nepal): Opium:- Supply of statistics under the Opium Conventions of 1925 and 1931.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of statistical information concerning the import and export of dangerous drugs in respect of Bahrain. The information was supplied by the Political Agency, Bahrain, via the Home Office, to the Permanent Central Opium Board of the League of Nations (later the United N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Aug 1935-26 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (542 folios)