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Coll 17/20(1) 'Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930. Revision of Treaty 1948' [‎150r] (299/304)

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The record is made up of 1 file (149 folios). It was created in 20 Jan 1933-3 Feb 1948. 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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3.
the frontiers in the Shatt-al-Arab sector*
13. His Majesty had replied that he had thought
this issue had already been settled in principle when Nuri
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. haa discussed it with the Persian Minister of the
Court during His Majesty’s visit to Tehran last spring, and
he was surprised to learn that the Persian (xovernment wished
to reopen the question of the sovereignty of these waters.
It was, however, not a matter which he could discuss himself
and no doubt the Minister would take it up with the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs if he had been instructed to do so.
14. He then expressed to me the most serious
apprehensions concerning the intentions of the Persian
Government. He feared that they would make their demands in
the Shatt-al-Arab a major political question and might even
try to refer it to the League for settlement. He
instanced their obstinacy in the matter of Bahrain and said
that he felt that they would prove to be proportionately
more difficult to deal with in a matter in which far greater
interests were involved. For his part he felt that any
limitation of Iraq’s compaete sovereignty over the waters of
the Shatt-al-Arab was quite unthinkable and he hoped that His
Majesty’s Government, in view of the Treaty of Alliance,
would give their full support to Iraq in resisting all
efforts of the Persian Government to seize part of this vital
channel. He also informed me that Feroughi Khan, the
Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, had intimated his
desire for an audience in a few days’ time, when passing
through Bagdad on his return from Geneva. He feared that
Feroughi, too, would probably endeavour to discuss this
issue.
15. I said that my advice to His Majesty was to
hold the Persian Government to the arrangement for a
Conservancy/

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The file contains papers relating to the Treaty of Alliance (Anglo-Iraqi Treaty) of 1930 between the United Kingdom and Iraq, and the revised Treaty of Alliance of 1948.

Papers dated January 1933 to December 1934 mostly concern the following: the attitude and policy of King Feisal and the Iraqi Cabinet towards the Treaty of 1930; complaints by George Arthur Ogilvie-Forbes, HM Representative, Baghdad, on behalf of the British Government, to the Government of Iraq about the hostile attitude of the Iraqi press towards the 1930 Treaty and the United Kingdom; the death of King Feisal [Faysal I] and the attitude of the new King, King Ghazi [Ghazi I]; and the desire of the Iraqi Government to publish certain explanatory notes on the Treaty of 1930.

Papers dated from March 1946 to February 1948 relate to the revision of the Treaty of 1930, and the signing of the new Treaty of Alliance of 1948. They include papers concerning the political consequences of the signing of the Treaty, including ‘rioting’ in Baghdad and the resignation of the Iraqi Prime Minister Saleh Jabr [Salih Jabr].

The file does not include any papers for the period January 1935 to February 1946.

The papers dated 1933 to 1934 largely consist of copy correspondence between Sir Francis Humphreys, HM Ambassador to Iraq, and the Foreign Office (including letters addressed to Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). The papers dated 1946 to 1948 largely consist of correspondence and copy correspondence between the following: HM Embassy, Baghdad, and the Foreign Office; the 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. and the Board of Trade; the Commonwealth Relations Office and the governments of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Newfoundland, and Southern Rhodesia; and Saiyid Saleh Jabr, Prime Minister of Iraq, and Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary.

The file also includes a copy of the Draft Anglo-Iraqi Treaty dated 9 January 1948, and a published copy of the Treaty of Alliance between the United Kingdom and Iraq, dated 15 January 1948.

The file includes a letter in Arabic from Mohamed Fadhil Al Jamali, Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, HM Ambassador to Iraq, 2 August 1946 (folio 74), for which there is an English translation.

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

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1 file (149 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 152; these numbers are written in pencil 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.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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