IOR/R/15/2/1507

Routine correspondence received at and sent from the Bahrain Political Agency. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/11 II Miscellaneous correspondence’ (IOR/R/15/2/1506). The correspondence covers a diverse range of topics of a routine nature, including: passport and travel arrangements for individuals; paperwork relating to the receipt of and despatch of articles; minor financial disputes, including small claims and outstanding debts; enquiries from individuals planning to travel to Bahrain and the surrounding region.

Other subjects covered in the file include:

• correspondence relating to the body of a United States serviceman, recovered on the Qatar coast in June 1948, including a post mortem report (ff 82-85, ff 97-99);
• an enquiry from an individual writing from the United States for a list of schools in Bahrain (f 87, with a list of schools in English, f 89, translated from a handwritten Arabic list, f 307);
• a telegram, dated September 1948, reporting the assassinations in Jerusalem of the French military officer Colonel André Serot, and the Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte (f 103);
• enquiries made in 1949 by the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) into licensing laws in Bahrain (f 110, f 117, f 120);
• a British Government paper entitled ‘Themes of Publicity about the Commonwealth’, 1949 (ff 173-175);
• a report and accounts for the British Bank of Iran and the Middle East, 1950 (ff 256-259).