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‘File 28/57-V Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942 (Working of)’ [8r] (15/88)
The record is made up of 1 file (42 folios). It was created in 9 Feb 1944-27 Jun 1946. 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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CONglDEMTIAl
Ho.C/1078.
Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
y
Bahrain, 18th July 1944.
From
T. B. Rogers, Esq., I.C.S.,
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.
,
Bahrain.
To
The Hon'ble 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.
in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
,
Bushire.
t
Sir,
Subject: Proposal to rescind the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Regulation
No.2 of 1942.
I have the honour to refer to your printed letter No.
620-S dated the 23rd June 1944 and to report that I discussed
this matter with Mr. Ward Anderson and Mr. H.B. Nichols (Vice-
President of the Company) on 14th July. I set forth below
what are more or less our agreed conclusions, which also sub
stantially represent the views of Major T. Hickinbotham, C.I.E.,
O.B.E., with whom I discussed the matter before he left.
Mr. Ward Anderson has asked me to send him a copy of this
letter. I understand he intends forwarding it to his Head
Office with any comments he may wish to add.
2. In general, it is not clear why a regulation which has
so far rendered such useful service should be jettisoned largely
for the reason that one or two ill-disposed employees (after not
inconsiderable trouble to themselves and, perhaps, harm to their
good name) have been able to evade it. Surely only evasion of
the regulation on a considerable scale would justify rescinding
the regulation on the grounds that it can be evaded.
3. Besides, the rescinding of the regulation may be expected
to produce the following undesirable consequences:-
(a) If we rescind the regulation now when, with the con
struction work on a vital aviation petrol plant in full swing,
the Company is obviously engaged on more important work than
ever before, employees who have acquiesced so long in being
prevented from joining the fighting services may rightly specu
late whether our motives were sincere in introducing the
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The file comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the rescission of Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942, made under the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. States (Emergency) Order in Council A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council. (1939), which prohibited employees of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) from quitting their employment without the prior consent of the British political authorities. The principal correspondents in the file are: 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior); 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 (Major Tom Hickinbotham; also T E Rogers, officiating in Hickinbotham’s absence); the 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. (Roland Tennyson Peel).
The file includes:
- correspondence discussing difficulties raised by the Regulation (employees either having difficulties returning home for their leave, or not returning after their leave has completed), and the possibility of rescinding the Regulation in August 1944, rejected on the grounds that important expansion work on the refinery at Bahrain was ongoing, and that the Regulation was working effectively for all but one or two ‘ill-disposed employees’ (ff 3-4, ff 8-10, f 13, ff 21-22);
- correspondence dated from July 1945, concerning the suspension, and then the rescission of the Regulation, including copies of Regulation No. 1 of 1946, which officially repealed Regulation No. 2 of 1942 (ff 23-36);
- copies of correspondence sent by His Majesty’s Consul at Khorramshahr (Andrew Charles Stewart) to His Majesty’s Ambassador at Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard), concerning difficulties encountered in enforcing a similar Regulation at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), where many employees were reported to be deliberately reducing their output in order to force managers to dismiss them (ff 6-7, ff 11-12);
- correspondence 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. at Bahrain and the Chief Local Representative at BAPCO (Ward P Anderson) over the Regulation and its enforcement in relation to Indian employees taking leave (ff 16-19).
- Extent and format
- 1 file (42 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 (ff 40-43) mirror the chronological arrangement.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 44; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/R/15/2/752
- Title
- ‘File 28/57-V Defence Regulation No. 2 of 1942 (Working of)’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:15v, 18r:18v, 20r:22v, 24r:24v, 26r:28v, 30r:31v, 33r:34v, 37r:38v, 40r:43v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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