IOR/L/PS/12/3747

This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding British Government policy on the Trucial Coast. Specifically, this includes discussions concerning the possibility of appointing an Assistant Political Agent to the region, incorporating it into civil air routes and whether or not Britain should take more formal control of the area. The correspondence is primarily between officials at the Political Residency in Bushire, the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, the India Office, the Air Ministry and the Foreign Office.

In addition to correspondence, the file also contains the following:

• Minutes from several meetings of the 'Committee of Imperial Defence. Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East' (folios 103-131, 149-174, 353-354)
• 1929 India Office memorandum entitled 'Future Policy on the Trucial Coast' (folios 333-337)
• 1929 India Office memorandum entitled 'Question of British Interference in the Administration of Bahrain' (folios 342-345)
• 1928 India Office memorandum 'The Trucial Chiefs, 1908-1928' (folios 401-404)
• 1928 India Office memorandum 'El Katr [Qatar], 1908-16' (folio 406)
• a series of ten small photographic portraits of tribal leaders from the region (folios 28-32).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the front of the correspondence.