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'File 8/8 VII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1948' [148r] (295/322)
The record is made up of 1 file (159 folios). It was created in 3 Jan 1949-11 Jan 1950. 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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of the United States of America at Dhahran during the
year and included Bahrain in his M Un-official jurisdiction M •
He visited here frequently, carrying out his duties un
obtrusively and agreeably.
27. YISIYOM .
On the 13th January the Right Honourable
Mr.ANTHONY EDEN, M.C., J.P., arrived in Bahrain by air
from Abadan. He was accompanied by his son NICHOLAS and
COLONEL PALMER. His Highness the Shaikh of Bahrain gave
Mr.EDEN a very warm welcome and entertained him to lunch
at the Qudhaibiyah Palace. Mr.EDEN also attended a cock
tail party at the Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
and dined with the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
. He and his party left for Riyadh
on the 14th in an ARAMCO aircraft, accompanied by Shaikh
MOUSTAPHA HAFIZ WAHBA who arrived early in the morning
to meet him.
There were many other visitors to Bahrain during
the year most of them connected, more or less remotely
with oil.
28. PAHRAIN m PALE STINI.
In January the Bahrain Government informed the
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
that owing to the anti-Jewish riots of 1947 they
did not wish visas for Bahrain to be issued to active
Zionists, Jewish refugees, or Jews not in Bahrain on
definite business. In April the Bahrain Palestine Air
Committee appealed for contributions to the Bahrain
Government and local European firms and asked them to
bring their appeal to the notice of their employees. On
the advice of the Political authorities no action was
taken on the appeal and Shaikh Abdullah, the president
of the Committee, was advised privately that no official
contribution could be expected from any member of an
European firm. Feeling against Jews and those supposed
to be the active supporters of the Zionist cause often ran
high and when the U.S.S. M Rendova M visited Bahrain in May
a number of Arab notables refused to attend a tea party
on board because "they could not accept hospitality from
the country which had recognised Israel as a Sovereign
State”. Local Jews deemed it politic to associate
themselves with this statement and to subscribe to
Arab Funds in aid of Palestine and there were no further
Anti-Jewish incidents, though both the Bahrain Government
and the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Squadron of the Royal Navy were fully
prepared at the time of the termination by the United
Kingdom of the Palestine Mandate in May to prevent any
recurrence of last year’s rioting.
The news of the invasion of Palestine by the
Arab Armies was received with jubilation but enthusiasm
waned with the slow progress and the repulses suffered by
these armies, and the ensuing military and political
stalemate, and finally lapsed into an attitude of callous
indifference towards the fate of the Palestinean Arab
Refugees. Some efforts were made at the end of the year
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The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the 1948 Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , as well as the reports themselves.
The correspondence is between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. and representatives of institutions active in Bahrain that provide reports and statistics for the annual report. These include: Medical Department of the Government of Bahrain; British Postal Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ; American Mission Hospital; Eastern Bank Limited; Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO); Customs Department of the Government of Bahrain; Victoria Memorial Hospital; British Overseas Airways Corporation; Petroleum Concessions Limited; Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Sir Charles Belgrave); Imperial Bank of Iran; and Gray, Mackenzie & Co Limited. The Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. report (folios 116-129) is submitted to the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. by the Political Officer at Sharjah. Both final reports are then submitted by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Bahrain to the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bahrain.
The final report (folios 123-148), which includes the final, summarised version of the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Report, is made up of numbered sections, as follows: 1. Al Khalifa; 2. Education; 3. Agriculture; 4. Water Conservation; 5. Municipalities; 6. Public Works; 7. Electricity Department; 8. Telephone Department; 9. Transport Department; 10. Pearling; 11. Customs; 12. Food Control; 13. Shipping; 14. Post Office; 15. Administration of Justice; 16. Police; 17. Economic; 18. Medical; 19. Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited; 20. Petroleum Concessions Limited; 21. Cable and Wireless Limited; 22. British Overseas Airways Corporation; 23. Royal Navy; 24. United States Navy; 25. Royal Air Force; 26. US Consul, Dhahran; 27. Visitors; 28. Bahrain and Palestine; 29. Bahrain and Persia; 30. Items of Interest; 31. Weather; 32. Qatar; 33. Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. . Some sections are further divided into parts assigned either a lower case Roman numeral (iv, for example) or a lower case letter of the alphabet (d, for example). Several of these parts also come under a sub-heading.
Folios 159-60 are internal office notes.
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- 1 file (159 folios)
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The file is arranged chronologically.
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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 161; 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 typed foliation sequence is also present between ff 40-88; these numbers are located in the same position as the main sequence.
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- Title
- 'File 8/8 VII Annual Administration Report for the Year 1948'
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- front, front-i, 2r:15v, 24r:24v, 32r:37v, 110r:113v, 115r:160v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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