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‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’ [9v] (18/40)
The record is made up of 1 file (18 folios). It was created in 30 Jun 1930-5 Jul 1945. 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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considered as embodying the separate agreement on all
financial questions referred to in the second exchange of
notes between Your Excellency and myself at the time of
the signature of the treaty of alliance on the 30th June, 19o0.
It is understood that the agreement constituted by this
note and by Your Excellency’s reply thereto shall be included
in the instruments of ratification of the treaty of alliance and
shall become operative on the exchange of ratifications.
1. The Government of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland shall transfer to the Iraq
Government, within the period stipulated in Clause I of the
annexure to the treaty of alliance signed on the 30th of
June, 1930, the aerodromes and encampments at
Hinaidi and Mosul at present occupied by the Forces
of His Britannic Majesty, and the ‘Iraq Government shall
accept the transfer thereof (less two A type steel hangais
and the ice plants at Hinaidi and Mosul to be lemoved )\
the Government of the United Kingdom) at one-thud of the
cost price certified as correct by the Air Ministry of the
Government of the United Kingdom, of the permanent
buildings, plant and structures thereon, no account being
taken of the mud buildings which shall be transferred to the
Iraq 1 Government free of cost. The ‘Iraq Government shall
pay this sum to the Government of the United Kingdom not
later than the date upon which the aforesaid transfer is
completed.
During the maximum period stipulated in Clause I of
the annexure to the treaty of alliance the hoices of HU
Britannic Majesty shall remain in undisturbed occupation of
their present stations of Hinaidi and Mosul and at Shaiba, and
in the use of their existing emergency landing grounds, and
the Government of the United Kingdom shall not be called
upon to pay higher rental charges in respect thereof than
those at present paid.
2. If upon the withdrawal of the Forces of His Britannic
Majesty from Hinaidi and Mosul in accordance with Clause
I of the annexure to the treaty of alliance, the Government
of the United Kingdom should decide to establish a British
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The file contains papers relating to press and parliamentary demands in Iraq, emerging during June 1945, for a renegotiation of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance of 1930. These papers are as follows:
- a printed copy of the ‘Treaty of Alliance between the United Kingdom and ‘Iraq, with Exchanges of Notes’, signed in Baghdad on 30 June 1930 (ff 3-11);
- a white paper (ff 13-16) entitled ‘Parliamentary and Press Campaign for the Revision of the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance of 1930’, prepared by the Combined Intelligence Centre Iraq (CICI) and dated 5 July 1945, outlining: recent agitation in the Iraqi press for a change to the status quo in relations between Britain and Iraq; recent parliamentary debate in Iraq regarding the treaty; the start of an ‘anti-imperialist’ campaign in Iraq, in response to British intervention in Syria; news reports of Iraqi demands for a revision of the Treaty, and the subsequent response in the Iraqi press; a list of points of issue in the Treaty, as defined by Nur ud-Din Dawud of the an-Nida newspaper. A distribution list for the paper (f 12) is included in the file;
- an appendix to the above CICI paper, also dated 5 July 1945 (f 18), stating that American dissatisfaction with Britain’s ambassadorial arrangements with Iraq – in comparison to the United States’ own, inferior diplomatic status – is a reason for the need to amend the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty. The distribution list for the appendix (f 17) is much smaller than that for the main paper (f 12), indicating its secret, rather than confidential nature.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (18 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 (f 19) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 20; 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 incomplete foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 12-18; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- IOR/R/15/2/640
- Title
- ‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’
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- 3r:11v
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