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‘File 13/4 III: Facilities for Foreign Companies using Arab Route’ [39r] (77/144)
The record is made up of 1 file (70 folios). It was created in 10 May 1942-4 May 1950. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Telegram I.D.V
From
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
, Bushire
To
Government of India, New Delhi.
Repeated Secretary of State for India, London
Minstate, Cairo, for Prior.
Copy to Air Officer Commanding, Habbaniyah.
No. 1100
Dated 10th June 1942
Reference my telegram No. T/273 April 13th.
2. Jackson reports from Salala on June 6th that four
Pan American Airways personnel have arrived there. They
state that they have come to establish a staging post for
a Pan American Airways service between Khartoum and Karachi,
that more of their men are expected within a few days
with wireless equipment, that their aircraft carry U.S.
Army markings, that they have not come under the auspices
of the Royal Air Force or British Overseas Airways Cor
poration, that they expect to Carr y private passengers if
bookings of government priority passages permit it and that
they wish to negotiate with Sultan for a camp site, local
labour and supply of privisions.
3. Sultan is insisting that these Pan American Airways
personnel should undertake to be associated with the Royal
Air Force and to be bound by his rules for the Royal Air
Force c.f. my telegram No. 304 February 15th (to Government
of India only). Failing this he proposes to ask personnel
to explain their presence. When Jackson write he (Jackson)
was concluding with the personnel an agreement that they
should vis a vis the State be regarded as the R.A.F. until
their status is defined.
4. Sultan has intimated that he would in any case like
to reserve his right of jurisdiction over these Americans.
- 'lutj-
Jackson is of opinion that Sultan would be pleased
5
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The file, which is a continuation of correspondence in the volume ‘File 13/4 II Facilities for Foreign Air Company’s using Arabian Air Route’ (IOR/R/15/2/512), deals chiefly with the use of air facilities around the Arabian peninsula by United States aircraft during the Second World War. The file contains correspondence relating to: plans of the Californian Standard Oil Company to construct landing strips along the Arab coast between Dhahran and Kuwait; Pan-American Airways aircraft being used by the United States military in the region, and an agreement that such aircraft should be entitled to the same privileges in using aerodrome facilities as British RAF aircraft; concerns among British officials at Pan-American Airways’ attempts to further their commercial interests in the Gulf during the war. A final item of correspondence in the file, dating from 1950, concerns a request by the Lebanese authorities to extend an air route to Kuwait.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (70 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 (ff 69-70) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; 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 foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-71; these numbers are also written in pencil, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/2/513
- Title
- ‘File 13/4 III: Facilities for Foreign Companies using Arab Route’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 7r:12v, 15r:53v, 55v:63v, 65r:71v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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