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IOR/L/PS/12/4756
- Record Id:
- 040-000559877
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000559876
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000691.0x0001db
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100043448081.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/4756
- Title:
- Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction'
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and Commonwealth governments; and a register of papers received or sent by the CRO relating to the Committee, with internal CRO correspondence (at the back of the file).
The file includes agendas for meetings of the Committee, and minutes of the meetings on 28 April, 5 May, 5 July and 19 July 1949. Matters discussed and recorded in the minutes include: the reconstitution of the Committee; the re-settlement of Arab refugees from Palestine; the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East by the Working Party of the Committee; the future work of the Committee; the Conference of HM Representatives in the Middle East to be held in London from 26 to 29 July 1949; United States President Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ (Truman’s message of 24 June 1949 to the United States House of Representatives, communicating a ‘Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation to Authorise an Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas of the World’); and further studies of the Working Party.
The file also includes the following papers prepared by (or approved by) the Working Party of the Committee: draft, revised and interim versions of the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East; papers relating to the economic and social development of Iraq, Syria, Greater Transjordan, Egypt, the Lebannon, Saudi Arabia, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Eritrea and Somalia, and the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; and a paper on Middle East oil.
In addition, the file includes other papers relating to matters discussed at the meetings, and the following subjects: Transjordan; irrigation development in Iraq; Persia’s [Iran’s] Seven Year Plan for development; informal conversations on social and economic affairs in the Middle East between representatives of the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the British Embassy in Washington, and the United States State Department; the work of the Development Division of British Middle East Office; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic development in Cyprus in relation to the Middle East.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000559876
040-000559877 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/4756-4760 : External Collection 54: Middle East
IOR/L/PS/12/4756 : Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/12/4756, f 260 : Transjordan
IOR/L/PS/12/4756, f 295 : Syria
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- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0055]/037-000559876[0001]/040-000559877
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (468 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000691.0x0001db
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1949
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 20 Mar 1949-13 Dec 1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 468; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- Coll 54/1(S)
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received and sent by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)