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‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’ [12r] (25/194)
The record is made up of 1 file (95 folios). It was created in 14 Dec 1940-23 Jul 1949. 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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IV
CONFIDENTIAL
D* O.No.c/1538
Bahrain, 23rd October 1944,
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
,
"
Please refer to your endorsement No .c /389 dated the
21st October 1944.
2. While I was in Cairo last week I did my best to interest
the Ministry of Information in the Middle East in taking a
film of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The Ministry have a mobile film
unit which has taken some excellent pictures and it was decided
that the unit could probably come to the Gulf after operating
in the Sudan in February or March next year. I was asked by
Ryan who is the Controller in Cairo of the Ministry of Infor
mation if I would put up a programme for the unit and make
suggestions for the actual "story" of the film.
3. Thsre is however no certainty that the unit will in fact
be sent to the Gulf in the spring for ais I had reason to realize
when in Cairo the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
is very low on the list of Middle
East priorities and any one of the Ovher countries of the Middle
East with the possible exception of the Yemen would certainly
be given preference over the Gulf. I therefore consider that
we should encourage India to take the film.
4. Quite fortuitously I had an opportunity of talking to
Bozman yesterday evening and he told me that India f s technique
had very much improved but that he was surprised to learn that
they would be able to spare a unit to travel round the Gulf.
He asked me whether the offer had been made by the Information
and Broadcasting Department or by some Military body. Urfortu-
nately I was not in a position to obtain the papers at that time
and was therefore unable to tell him that the suggestion came
/from
The Hon^ole Sir Geoffrey Prior, K.C.I .E.,
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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
Camp Bahrain.
About this item
- Content
The file contains exchanges of secret and confidential letters, memoranda and telegrams, mainly between Major Reginald George Evelyn William Alban and his successor Cornelius James Pelly (British Political Agents, Bahrain); Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Geoffrey Prior ( 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bushire); Major Tom Hickinbotham and his successor A.L.A. Dredge, (Public Relations Officers in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bahrain); Captain J.B. Howes (Publicity Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Bahrain then Deputy Secretary, Government of India Information and Broadcasting Department, New Delhi).
File correspondence discusses: the script and arrangements for making a British public information film about the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , by an Indian film unit, in 1945; requests for funds to develop a recreation ground and provide a cinema in Bahrain, in order to promote social contact between the British, Arabs and Persians, 1940-1941; and compiling a list of Sheikhs in Bahrain and Qatar and also Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Rulers, who would appreciate a supply of Arabic literature from the Public Relations Office in Bahrain, 1949. There is also a copy of the minutes of a meeting of the Public Information Committee held in the Public Information Office, Bahrain on 12 January 1941 (ff.6-8).
The file also contains policies, plans, information and guidance relating to publicity work in the Middle East which were circulated to British officials in the region by the Ministry of Information in London and Cairo. These include British propaganda policy and planning for Persia 1944-1945 by the Overseas Planning Committee; information about British publicity work in Palestine; notes for making public statements about the political assassination of Lord Moyne (British Minister Resident in the Middle East) in Cairo on 6 November 1944; French claims in the Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. , 1945; and participation by Syria and Lebanon in the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (95 folios)
- Arrangement
File papers are arranged chronologically. The notes at the end of the file contain two lists of file contents. The first list (ff.93-94) records the reference numbers 1 to 44 (with gaps) which have been written in pencil or blue crayon on most of the documents, starting at the front of the file. The second list (ff.94-95) records reference numbers that refer to papers at the end of the file. The reference numbers help to identify and locate these documents in the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: numbered 1 to 95 in pencil in the top right hand corner. The numbering starts at the front of the file, on the first file enclosure (f.1) and ends on the last file enclosure (f.95) at the back of the file. The front file cover is not foliated.
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- Title
- ‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1r:95v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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