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‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’ [10r] (19/40)
The record is made up of 1 file (18 folios). It was created in 30 Jun 1930-5 Jul 1945. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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air base in the neighbourhood of Habbaniya, then tlie ‘Iraq
Governrneut shall take all possible steps at no cost to eithei
Government, to arrange for the construction of a railway
to connect such air base with the railway system of ‘Iraq,
3. The leases of the sites for air bases to be granted to
His Britannic Majesty, in accordance with the provisions of
Article 5 of the treaty of alliance, shall, in so far as such
sitt^s are on waste Government land, be free of all rental
charges, and, in so far as they are on non-Government land,
every facility shall be given for their acquisition on reasonable
terras, such acquisition being effected by the Traq Govern
ment at the request and at the cost of the Government of the
United Kingdom. The leased lands shall be free of all taxes
and rates, and the leases shall continue so long as these bases
remain in the occupation of the Forces of His Britannic
Majesty in accordance with the provisions of the aforesaid
treaty ' of alliance or of any extension thereof. On the
final termination of the leases of the said sites, <>i of an}
one of them, the Traq Government shall either themseBes
take over the buildings and permanent structures thereon at a
fair valuation, having regard to the use to which they have
been put, or shall afford such facilities as may reasonably be
necessary to enable the Government of the I nited Kingdom
to dispose thereof to the best advantage.
After the expiry of the maximum period stipulated in
Clause 1 of the annexure to the treaty of alliance, and so
long as the said treaty of alliance remains in force, the
Government of the 1 nited Kingdom shall not be called upon
to pay any charges in respect of the use of any of the existing
emergency landing grounds in Traq.
4. The following arrangements for the disposal and
administration of the Traq railway system shall be carried
into effect as soon as possible, and in any case within a
maximum period of 1 year from the entry into force of the
treaty of alliance:—
(a) Legal ownership of the railway system shall be
transferred by the Government of the United Kingdom to
the ‘Iraq Government and registered in the name of the
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- Content
The file contains papers relating to press and parliamentary demands in Iraq, emerging during June 1945, for a renegotiation of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance of 1930. These papers are as follows:
- a printed copy of the ‘Treaty of Alliance between the United Kingdom and ‘Iraq, with Exchanges of Notes’, signed in Baghdad on 30 June 1930 (ff 3-11);
- a white paper (ff 13-16) entitled ‘Parliamentary and Press Campaign for the Revision of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance of 1930’, prepared by the Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq (CICI) and dated 5 July 1945, outlining: recent agitation in the Iraqi press for a change to the status quo in relations between Britain and Iraq; recent parliamentary debate in Iraq regarding the treaty; the start of an ‘anti-imperialist’ campaign in Iraq, in response to British intervention in Syria; news reports of Iraqi demands for a revision of the Treaty, and the subsequent response in the Iraqi press; a list of points of issue in the Treaty, as defined by Nur ud-Din Dawud of the an-Nida newspaper. A distribution list for the paper (f 12) is included in the file;
- an appendix to the above CICI paper, also dated 5 July 1945 (f 18), stating that American dissatisfaction with Britain’s ambassadorial arrangements with Iraq – in comparison to the United States’ own, inferior diplomatic status – is a reason for the need to amend the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty. The distribution list for the appendix (f 17) is much smaller than that for the main paper (f 12), indicating its secret, rather than confidential nature.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (18 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (f 19) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 20; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional incomplete foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 12-18; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- ‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’
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- 3r:11v
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