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‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’ [24r] (49/194)
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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viar\t$ to! but It is a possibility t
I have r.ot touched "ersir, v/hich is really rather a
partipular subject, and it is very difficult a^ein there to
see mat is Going to crop ur). Ve have got to take decisions.
There are all sorts of interests there. Fothin ' can ;;et
array from the fact that northern Persia is foing to be tied
to Tlussia, and Southern Persia will continue to look to a
certain extent to India. Developnent of railvays rather alter
this and nelo to tie Southern Persia uo to the Torth.
As regards the econonic situation, vq have -one into all
tiese countries end have issued proclanations in which we have
pronised e. oi' ^ous benefits - orovided pay, provided work,
J3noruous siL.is of noney have £;one into the pockets of a certain
number of la bourers T .Tho have worked for us and a very s r -ia 11
nuriber of rich nerchants and profiteers. Very little has
Cot through to the
fellaheen
Arabic for ‘peasant’. It was used by British officials to refer to agricultural workers or to members of a social class employed primarily in agricultural labour.
whose chief experience of the
not bein£ able to buy a new gallabieh for the
last four years5 not having enough food to eat and of even
havinc to reiove the shroud from his dead to use it a^ain.
u situation has now developed where the United -States is
producing goods for export. V7e have none yet. are going
to be faced v;it.i a situation in the not very renote future
wnen tne United States will be in a position to Provide
snipping and consumer co o «is and the covuitries in the 'liddle
Y only n ? ve sterling to pay with, and I do not know
what the answer is -oing to be. Unless we can make some
of r h^?i lGn ^^ ^ es ? are -oing to be in the position
of having tneir sterling practically frozen until we can ret
i. to production. The question is a serious one. This
=4^0^' s sypt, hGs credits of about three hundred mlUlon
ll s % h t s i; 1 sixty to seventy nillion sterlinc.
? f uavo slso sterling credits.
n«nh^ dol-i.urs and sterling. E^yot has a certain
oi dollars but the other countries have none. It is a
quae,ion for econonists, but before it is solved, it nay well
inthe^ ; Jddle C ^"t ln anount of c - ui ' to undeserved unoooularity
, P'- j - i C . S said there v/as little to add to so cop-
v n survey but he wished to refer briefly to the
Kurdish problem in Iraq.
'"'f s ® id that the present British oolicy was to try and
persuade xra( i is i to accept thuir resoonsibilitiss towards the
^i. E - 1 ?" tha J, it was in their own interests to do
so. Tnere was always the possibility that the '.ussians
miPht n L ? QX tend their-Mfluence ^ the Mediterranean area,
Stftp ? 0 f0E t e ^ the creation of a Kurdish rational
berlnnln fo ^ C !f 0f the Ba 2 ;:idad officials were
i„ to realise the danger if the- Central Government
did not do more for the Kurds.
•.•Meantime/
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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- IOR/R/15/2/927
- Title
- ‘File 4/3 (1.a/51) Propaganda’
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- 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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