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‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’ [16r] (31/40)
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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(a5, Provision for the defence of Iraq or the maintenance
of protected British Lines of Communication is
rendered obsolete by the LorId Security scheme and
clauses making such provision should be done away
with. In accordance with the SAN FRANCISCO charter
the only foreign troops which will be maintained on
another nation's territory will be those placed there
by a decision of the Security organisation.
(b) • Quite apart from this the existing legal and
financial concessions in respect of British Forces
in Iraq have resulted in certain Iraqi merchants
being put out of business through insufficiently
investigated slanders. This is an encroachment on
the civil rights of Iraqis which should not be allowed.
(c) . The exemption of British Military imports from
customs dues has deprived the Iraqi treasury of a
considerable revenue. This is a one sided arrange
ment which should cease.
(3). The clause whereby Iraq should provide guards for
R.A.F. installations has not been properly applied.
The R.A.F. Levies should be abolished.
(e) . The question of identity of training and methods
between the British and Iraqi armies should be the
subject of consultation with other Arab countries*
(f) . The clause dealing-with transport facilities for
British Forces does n#t make it clear that the
British Government should pay for these facilities.
(g) , British ships should require the approval of the
Iraqi Government before they may enter the Shatt al-
! Arab. It is not enough that the Iraqi Government
should know that they will enter it.
oo. Iraq should be able to have ambassadors in LONDON
and WASHINGTON.
(i) * The ‘’foreign 1 ’ direction cf the Iraq State Railways
must cease, and the fate of BASRA port must be
settled in a manner campatible with Iraq’s national
independence.
8 * The quality ‘*f NUR ud-DIN DAWUD’s political thought is
notoriously not very high, but he is closely connected with
JAMIL al-MADFA‘I and the views of his paper therefore carry
weight in BAGHDAD.
CICI Baghdad*
5 Jul y 1945.
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- Content
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’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 12r:19v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence