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‘File 25/4 Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of Alliance, 1930’ [18r] (35/40)
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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Appendix to C.I*C,I.Paper CICI/TP/l/JO/A
dated ?th July, 194J.
NOTE: This Appendix is SECRET and its contents
Should not he reproduced without reference to this
Centre *
One of the reasons for the move to amend the
Anglo-Iraqi Treaty and associated agreements is the dis
satisfaction of the Americans with the arrangement whereby
their diplomatic representative in BAGHDAD is necessarily of
lower rank than the British Ambassador, Among those most
sensitive to this was Mr, LOY W. HENDERSON who arrived in
BAGHDAD as U # S, Minister accompanied by his Latvian wife in
November 1943 , He continued to hold the post until March 1945
when he was transferred to WASHINGTON as Director of the
Office of Eastern and African Affairs in the State Department,
The issue together with that arising from the similar situation
in Egypt is unlikely to be raised in any acute form until
after the war but the American view cannot be considered a
closely guarded secret,
2 # In the autumn of 1944 the Iraqi Government
wished to strengthen its diplomatic representation in LONDON
and WASHINGTON in connection with anti-Zionist propaganda and
NURI
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
as SA 1 !!) was considered for the LONDON post. He
was not prepared to go if he must be inferior in rank to his
Egyptian colleague, who by virtue of Treaty arrangements is an
Ambassador 5 and the Minister for Foreign Affairs suggested that
the treaty letters might be amended to enable NURI
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to be
appointed with ambassadorial rank. This suggestion was not
well received by H.M.G, There was no particular objection to
bringing Iraq into line with Egypt by agreeing that her repre
sentative in LONDON might be an Ambassador and this could have
been done by a simple exchange of notes. But to alter the
Treaty letters in this particular would certainly have led
the U*S,A* to open the whole question of Britain^ privele;ed
diplomatic position in Iraq and Egypt, and the Minister for
Foreign Affairs was accordingly persuaded not to press tne
point*
3 # The Iraqis were naturally not very pleased at
this outcome to their approaches and the question of diplomatic
representation is therefore an actual one in a way that the
existence of a base at HABBANIYA or the R.A.F, Levies are not.
But since the Iraqis have strong reasons for wishing to bring
the first question up again sooner or later they have been
casting about for other points which might usefully be brought
up at the same time.
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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
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- Open Government Licence