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'British Desiderata in Regard to the Baghdad Railway' [155v] (6/6)
The record is made up of 1 file (3 folios). It was created in 1918?. 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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agreement with the Society de Transports fiuviaux en Orient, of
Brussels, for the carriage of railway material.
2. We should be guarded against a possible charge of grabbing. _
3. The French financiers would thus be got rid of at the beginning. It would
be for them to get the best price they could out of the German Treasury;
but they would not come into conflict with us.
4. There would seem no ostensible reason why Mesopotamia, &c., should get
the railway as a free gift. If they bought their sections from the Allied
Pool, the above-quoted justification by analogy with Bulgaria and the
Orient Railway would be complete.
R. V.
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This confidential memorandum, signed R V, concerns Britain's policy with regards to the Baghdad Railway following the occupation of the Mesopotamia. The memorandum details two variant policies: (1) regarding the Railway not as private property, but as a Turkish State railway, and that all its assets in Mesopotamia should therefore be transferred to the Iraq State pending transfer to an Allied Railway Company; and (2) a proposal for the internationalisation of the Railway to be controlled by Great Britain, France and Italy, and perhaps the United States of America. The advantages and disadvantages vis-a-vis British interests are then further discussed throughout the report.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at folio 153, and terminates at folio 155, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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 also present in parallel between folios 11-158; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- Title
- 'British Desiderata in Regard to the Baghdad Railway'
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- 153r:155v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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