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31. 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)

32. 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)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/3909

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3909
Title:
Coll 30/172 'Attitude of Ibn Saud (Saudi Arabia) towards Arab rulers in Persian Gulf and P. Gulf affairs.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from British officials concerning the attitude of the Government of Saudi Arabia (specifically that of its king, Ibn Saud [Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]) toward the rulers of other Gulf states. The correspondents include HM Minister, Jedda...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1938-2 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/18/B126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B126
Title:
'TURKISH JURISDICTION IN THE ISLANDS AND WATERS OF THE PERSIAN GULF, AND ON THE ARAB LITTORAL'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum written by Trevor John Chicheley Plowden, Under Secretary to the Foreign Department, Government of India, 21 Mar 1879, and published 25 March 1879 in Lahore by the Punjab Government. The memorandum addresses the question of Turkish jurisdiction in the islands and waters of the Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1879
Extent:

1 file (14 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/18/B133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B133
Title:
Memorandum respecting Koweit
Scope & Content:
This is a confidential memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office on 30 October 1901, and authored by Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt, dated 29 Oct 1901. The memorandum primarily focuses on the position of Koweit [Kuwait] in regards to Turkey (Ottoman Empire) from 1871 onwards. In the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1901
Extent:

1 file (11 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/18/B158

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B158
Title:
Aden Policy
Scope & Content:
The file consists of two notes by members of the Council of India, William Lee-Warner and Hugh Shakespear Barnes, on the Government of India's Letter No 119 dated 9 August 1906 (L/PS/10/74: Pol No 1455/06), concerning policy in Aden. William Lee-Warner's note opposes the Government of India's p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1906
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/18/B216

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B216
Title:
British Policy in the Yemen
Scope & Content:
The file contains an introduction by Major-General Sir George John Younghusband, Political Resident, Aden, introducing two memoranda written by Lieutenant Harold Fenton Jacob, First Assistant Resident, Aden. They are addressed to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Political Department, i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Sep 1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/18/B217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B217
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. I. Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret memorandum, prepared by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Mark Sykes. The report is preceded by a letter from Sykes to Major-General Charles Edward Callwell, Director of Military Operations, War Office, London, dated 15 November 1915, which includes Sykes’s opinion on the occupation of Ahwaz, and an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/18/B218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B218
Title:
‘Policy in the Middle East. II. Select Reports and Telegrams from Sir Mark Sykes.’
Scope & Content:
Secret report on British policy in the Middle East, divided into two sections (reports and telegrams) sent by Sir Mark Sykes during 1915, while on his tour of the Middle East, on behalf of the de Bunsen Committee. Report no. 4 (Secret), dated 12 June 1915 from Athens, reporting on an interview h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/18/B353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B353
Title:
Arabia. Question of Future Policy, Subsidies to Chiefs, &c
Scope & Content:
This printed report consists of two notes prepared by Richard Marrs and John Evelyn Shuckburgh of the Political Department of the India Office on 19 October 1920 and 29 October 1920 respectively. These notes concern British policy, including the payment of subsidies and grants-in-aid, towards po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)