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‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’ [‎14r] (27/40)

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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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revision !, v/ith a view to eliminating certain qualifications
affecting the country's independence ,f , in answer to which he
announced, not for the last time, that his government proposed
to av/ait the end of hostilities before bringing up the question*
This did not by any means satisfy those who were pressing for
immediate revision; or perhaps it would be more accurate to
say that this definite statement gave an opening to ambitious
politicians in opposition to set a nationalist agitation afoot*
Furthermore the deterioration of Franco-Syrian relations and
doubt as to s attitude encouraged deputies to try to
exert pressure on Great Britain by raising any embarrassing
subject that lay to hand* On 28th May in the debate on the
Budget JAWAD JA 7 FAR (an AM«J*A deputy of no special standing)
accordingly delivered a most offensive speech in which he declared
among other things that the existence of air bases at SITJ 1 **!£«,
and HABBAKIlh. was useless to Great Britain and an insult to
Iraq, expressed himself dissatisfied with the present arrange
ments for the control of BASIL, port, and called for "certain
amendments" to the Treaty Letters. The last reference it may
be inferred was to the agreement not actually incorporated in
the Treaty whereby England appoints an .jnbassador to BAGHDAD
while Iraq is represented in LONDON only by a Minister; and
whereby Iraq undertakes not to employ other than British
advisers, so long as suitable British personnel are fortneoming^
MAHMUD RAMIZ and AHM«D al-JALILI likewise called^for treaty
revision (though without going into any detail) in the course
of the same debate; and MAHMUD RAMIZ is known to object to the
clauses in the Treaty permitting the passage of British troops
through the country, and also to the existence of the n.A.F*
Levies recruited from among the inhabitants of Iraq*
3 # By the time British forces intervened in Syria an
"anti-imperialist" campaign was therefore already under weigh
and the extreme nationalists who had reluctantly held their
tongues for the past three years, having seized the opportunity
offered by the Syrian affair to voice their old opinions,
shev/ed no disposition when the immediate occasion was passed to
return to their earlier silence. In the press "ash-Sha b on
7th June again referred to treaty revision considering this
subject should be discussed at the meeting of the Arab ^ e ague n
and was supported by another left-wing paper "ar-Ra f i ul- «mm .
The ball was then played back into the parliamentary court and
in a speech on 14-th June. the Shi l a Senator f ABD ul-^uIDl
described treaty revision as the first of the two mam planks
of Iraq 1 s foreign policy
Shi’a Senator
advocated
and
f ABD ul-MUHSIN SHALLASH another
:aution in raising this matter, in a
speech on 1?th June, and was promptly taken up by the Shi'a
paper "as-Sa’a" which charged him with gross weakness; with
the result that at the next Senate meeting on 19tn June
ul-MUHSIN was at pains to emphasise that he was in fact strongly
in favour of seeing the Treaty amended. On 19th June also
\ABD ul-MAHDI referred to the matter again, expressing gratui-
cation at the Prime Minister’s statement of 17th Jo the
effect that he considered the Treaty must indeed he amended but
that this must await the end of the war with Japan* In rms
connection the newspaper ,? ad~Diyar"
given earlier by th-o Prime Minister
Cairene "Akhir Sa 5 a" in which he is
the matter of the two British bases
cleared up by the new World Security
reprinted an interview
to a reporter of the
reported to have said that
in Iraq would no doubt be
scheme« and that the only
, e a. HU. one* o ^
other grounds of disagreement such as the status of
diplomatic representatives were matters of secondary impor a
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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.
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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.

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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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