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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name High Commissioner, Iraq, 1920-1932

51. IOR/L/PS/12/2102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2102
Title:
Coll 6/36(1) 'Transjordan-Nejd Frontier Affairs.'
Scope & Content:
This volume, which largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, concerns affairs on the Nejd-Transjordan frontier and relations between Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) and Transjordan generally. The beginning of the volume's correspondence follows on from IO...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jul 1932-15 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (462 folios)

52. IOR/L/PS/12/2109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2109
Title:
Coll 6/42 'Channels of Communication with Ibn Saud. Communication Arrangements between Bushire and British Authorities other than the Govt. of India.'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to arrangements of communication. A large part of the correspondence discusses the drafting and redrafting of a Foreign Office memorandum of instructions, which is intended to revise existing Foreign Office instructions regarding the channels of communication used by British au...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1929-25 Jun 1931
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

53. IOR/L/PS/12/2110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2110
Title:
Coll 6/43 'Pan Arab Congress 1933. Attitude of H.M.G. to a Pan Arab Movement'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the British Government's response to the Pan-Arab movement during the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the correspondence refers to the prospect of an Arab federation, although the use of the word 'federation' is noted in some of the correspondence as being a mistranslation of the ori...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Dec 1932-5 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (570 folios)

54. IOR/L/PS/12/2845

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2845
Title:
Coll 17/1 'Iraq-Nejd Relations: Bon Voisinage Agreement and Extradition; Treaty of Friendship, 1936'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers regarding relations between the Government of Iraq and the Government of Hejaz and Najd (later Saudi Arabia). It documents negotiations for the conclusion of the 1931 Bon Voisinage Agreement, Arbitration Protocol and Extradition Treaty, and the 1936 Treaty of Friendship...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1931-6 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (428 folios)

55. IOR/L/PS/12/2847

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2847
Title:
Coll 17/3 'Iraq. Oudh Bequest'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Foreign Secretary of the Government of India, the Office of the High Commissioner for Iraq, and Saiyid Kalbe Abbas Naqvi, Honorary Secretary of the Waqf Section of the All-India Shia Conference. The correspondence concerns the administration of the Oudh Bequest Fund, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1931-18 Oct 1935
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

56. IOR/L/PS/12/2848

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2848
Title:
Coll 17/4 'Iraq-Syria & Syria-Transjordan frontier: delimitation'
Scope & Content:
Papers regarding negotiations to amend the borders between French-mandated Syria, and British-mandated Iraq and Trans-Jordan. The papers discuss the boundaries established by the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Treaty of Sèvres, the British push for the inclusion of Amadiyah within the Iraq mandat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jun 1921-27 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 volume (386 folios)

57. IOR/L/PS/12/2849

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2849
Title:
Coll 17/5 'Iraq. Relations with Turkey'
Scope & Content:
The file contains the following reports submitted by HM Ambassador to Turkey, Sir George Russell Clerk: Report on the visit of the Prime Minister of Iraq (General Nuri Pasha) to Turkey, to discuss frontier delimitation, the Mosul Oilfields, the Iraqi policy towards the Kurds, French attempts at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1930-24 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

58. IOR/L/PS/12/2850

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2850
Title:
Coll 17/6 'Iraq and Persia: judicial cooperation agreement'
Scope & Content:
Copy correspondence between the Iraqi Minister for Foreign Affairs ('Abdulla Beg Al Damluji, then Ja'far Al 'Askari), the High Commissioner for Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), and the Government of Persia [Iran], regarding discussions over a proposed Judicial Co-operation Agreement. The corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1931-27 Oct 1932
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

59. IOR/L/PS/12/2851

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2851
Title:
Coll 17/7(1) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, reports and minutes regarding road and rail transport through Iraq, Trans-Jordan [Jordan], Palestine, Syria and Iran. The following topics are discussed in detail: The proposed construction of a Baghdad-Haifa rail route. The file also includes records regardin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Apr 1929-23 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 volume (524 folios)

60. IOR/L/PS/12/2854

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2854
Title:
Coll 17/8(2) 'Shaikh of Koweit's Estates: Date gardens of the Shaikh in Iraq'
Scope & Content:
This volume is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2853. It consists of extensive correspondence, memoranda and reports regarding date garden properties in Iraq owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, changes to their tax-exempt status, and lawsuits regarding their ownership. Properties owned by the Shaikh of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1934-22 May 1936
Extent:
1 volume (619 folios)