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81. IOR/L/PS/12/4759

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4759
Title:
Coll 54/3 'Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party. Country by Country Studies'
Scope & Content:
The file contains: Middle East (Official) Committee Working Party papers received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); and a register of the papers received (found at the back of the file), with very brief internal notes between Robert (William Doughty) Fowler a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1949-23 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

82. 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)

83. IOR/L/PS/18/B75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B75
Title:
Memorandum as to the Right of British Ships of War to go up the Tigris and Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the rights of British Ships of War to sail on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a simplified map of the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Shatt el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] and the nort...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1883
Extent:

1 volume (4 folios)

84. IOR/L/PS/18/B76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B76
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Claim of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to use Barges on those Rivers as a matter of "right"
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the right of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to sail their barges on those rivers, written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a summary of negotiations between the British and Ottoman Governments and as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 May 1881
Extent:

1 volume (8 folios)

85. IOR/L/PS/18/B77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B77
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Conveyance of English Mails on the River Tigris
Scope & Content:
This file is a short memorandum that summarises the legal situation regarding the right of English mail ships to sail on the Tigris River. The memorandum was written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. On folio 106 the file contains an extract from a letter (from an Ottoman Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Aug 1883
Extent:

1 volume (2 folios)

86. IOR/L/PS/18/B78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B78
Title:
Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates by British Merchant-Vessels
Scope & Content:
This file contains a selection of correspondence related to the right of British Merchant-Vessels to use the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This correspondence is primarily between British officials but also includes copies of letters between Ottoman officials including one letter in French (ff 11...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 May 1881
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

87. IOR/L/PS/18/B330

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B330
Title:
Inter-departmental conference on Middle Eastern affairs. Secretary's note: situation in Kurdistan
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note in which the struggle for Kurdish independence within Iraq is detailed, taking into account the occurrences of the year 1919. The document covers the following: Kurdish concerns regarding being under the control of the Armenians Kurdish appeals to the British governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1919
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

88. IOR/L/PS/18/B413

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B413
Title:
Oil Interests in the Persian Gulf. Communicated by the Board of Trade and revised to 28 June 1928.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum outlining oil concessions in Persia and Iraq held by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Standard Oil, and the Turkish Petroleum Company. It covers the Arabian littoral of the Gulf, and highlights the restrictions placed on Arab rulers by treaty engagements from granting oil concessions wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

89. IOR/L/PS/18/B450

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B450
Title:
The Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This is a secret printed memorandum by the Political Department of the India Office, dated 25 June 1935, concerning the Persian Gulf. The memorandum is divided in nine numbered sections, which include: 'Procedure for dealing with Persian Gulf Questions', 'British Relations with Persian Gulf Stat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1935
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

90. IOR/L/PS/18/B468

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B468
Title:
The Date Gardens in Iraq of the Sheikhs of Koweit [Kuwait] and Mohammerah. Scope of undertakings given by HM Government in 1914. Case for the opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown and Opinion thereon T W H Inskip and F B Merriman, Law Officers' Department, 29 Mar 1933. inc The date gardens in Iraq of the Sheikhs of Koweit and Mohammerah. Historical summary [undated]
Scope & Content:
This file contains a British Government report (folios 1-19) regarding promises made by the British in 1914 to the rulers of Kuwait and Mohammerah concerning their ownership of date gardens in Iraq. The report contains a description of the situation and the legal opinion of T W H Inskip and F ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Mar 1933
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)