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111. IOR/R/15/5/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/302
Title:
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

112. IOR/R/15/5/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/304
Title:
‘File 7/3 Special Police Officers — Appointment’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1949-15 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

113. IOR/R/15/5/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/277
Title:
File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Kuwait, and British Authorities in London and Iraq regarding the aerial survey of the Neutral Zone that lies between the Kuwaiti-Iraqi and Saudi Arabian borders. Several papers discuss concerns held by Saudi authorities that aerial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1930-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)

114. IOR/R/15/5/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/163
Title:
File 2/10 Iraq law governing the rights and duties of cultivators
Scope & Content:
This file contains two documents forwarded to the Political Agent in Kuwait regarding the passage of the Iraqi 'Law Governing the Rights and Duties o Cultivators' passed in Iraq in 1933. The documents are a covering letter from the British Embassy in Baghdad that introduces a more extensive comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

115. IOR/R/15/5/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/168
Title:
File 2/15 Iraq coup d'etat and political situation in Iraq
Scope & Content:
This file contains documents and correspondence relating to the takeover of Iraq by British forces following the coup d'état in Iraq during 1941. The papers discuss the possibility of an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and the domestic political situation in Iraq during and immediately after both the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1941-31 Oct 1944
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)

116. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

117. IOR/R/15/5/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/307
Title:
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Sep 1949-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

118. IOR/R/15/5/314

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/314
Title:
File 13/4 II 'American Mission in Arabia (Includes Acquisition of Land)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to the American Mission. It includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Dr C S G Mylrea of the American Mission, Kuwait, and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1930-17 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

119. IOR/R/15/5/276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/276
Title:
File 6/2 II Aviation - Foreign Aircraft. (Iraqi Airways, Iranian Airways, etc. Including recommendation for I.A.T.A. approval)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and various agents for regional and international airlines pertaining to permission to establish routes to Kuwait. Papers towards the end of the file include correspondence with the UK Civil Aviation authorities and British ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1949-16 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (67 folios)

120. IOR/R/15/5/123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/123
Title:
‘I/9 Forming of Army in Saudi Arabia’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence from the British Minister in Saudi Arabia (Stanley R Jordan) to the Foreign Office, dated 2 March 1944, and subsequently forwarded by the India Office to the Government of India, describing the Ruler of Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud’s [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1944-5 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)