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‘Foreign Office circulars. Particulars regarding temporary officers’ [‎5r] (9/274)

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The record is made up of 1 file (135 folios). It was created in 1 Jul 1946-26 Jan 1948. 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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Training
2# A separate section has been set up in Personnel
Department to handle Training. It deals with:
(a) Refresher courses * Under this scheme Foreign Service
Officers from all parts of the world are "brought home by air
at public expense under specially favourable financial
arrangements, to bring themselves up to date on affairs at
home and thus make themselves better interpreters and salesman
of Britain abroad. Since the beginning of this year the
main emphasis has been on export trade. Programmes for the
courses are co-ordinated with the Export Promotions Department
of the Board of Trade. Officers work in that Department for
two or three v/eeks and then tour the country studying
specific industries.
(b) Oxford V/eek-ends . This year arrangements have been
made for three special week-end refresher courses at Oxford.
These cater for 20 officers at a time. They hear talks by
exports and leading figures in the political, university and
Civil Service worlds on important topics of current interest
in Great Britain and the Empire and take part afterwards in
informal discussion. The main theme of the first course is
to be ’’The changed functions of Government in Great Britain
today”. Among the political speakers are to be Hr. Hector
McNeil# Mr. Ernest Davies and Mr. Woodcock, Secretary of the
Research Department, T.U.C.
(c) Initial Training. New Entrants into the Senior
Branch of the Foreign Service are given a lecture course of a
month 1 s duration dealing generally with the history and work of
the Foreign Service and its place in the Government machine.
The first was given last November and the second will start
shortly. Meanwhile two intensive ten-week courses in French
have boen completed for those new entrants vhose French was not
up to standard and a third is due to start on the 8th July.
A ’’Foreign Offiee Guide” (describing the organisation and
methods of work of the Foreign Office) and a “Foreign Service
Handbook” (Describing the structure, history and conditions of
service of the Foreign Service) have been completed. These,
together with other documents of general utility, are supplied
to new entrants to all Branches of the Foreign Service.
Lectures and refresher courses on the working of the Foreign
Office Registry have been given to new entrants, to Foreign
Service officers returning to the Foreign Office from the
Forces, to clerical officers on promotion and to new temporary
clerks.
(d) The Middle East Centre for Arab Studies at Jerusalem,
This Centre was set up on the initiative of the Foreign
Office two years ago. 30 men are given a thorough grounding
over a 12 months course in Arabic and associated political,
economic, social and religious studies. Results have been very
satisfactory. The next course is due to start on the 1st
September.
Amalgamation/

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The file comprises copies of circulars and other papers received at the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. from the Foreign Office (FO), relating to the administration of the Foreign Service at home and abroad. The file is arranged in three parts:

The first part (ff 2-23) is headed ‘Establishment’ and comprises a report, authored by David Scott and dated 1 July 1946, with some circulars relating to the organisation (and reorganisation) of the Foreign Office in the post-war period. The report contains information on: FO recruitment; training; amalgamation of posts; home allowances; salary scales; promotion. Circulars relate to: training; medical schemes; first aid equipment; clothing coupons; recruitment, including application forms.

The second part (ff 24-123) is headed ‘Circulars’ and comprises circulars received from the FO relating to: stationery supplies, including economy of use of stationery and supply of mourning stationery; supply of reference books, lists and other publications; salary scales; recruitment of typists, shorthand typists and clerical assistants, with application forms and notes; structure diagrams for the FO’s Establishment and Organisation, Finance, Establishment and Finance (Information), and Personnel Departments; Foreign Service post preference cards; forms for reporting on service; lists of FO circulars.

The third part of the file (ff 124-128) contains correspondence exchanged between 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. and the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , dated January 1948, relating to an FO circular requesting details of the particulars of FO temporary officers, and includes the particulars of 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. (Cornelius James Pelly) and the Assistant 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. (Joseph Edward Havelock Hudson) (f 126, f 127).

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1 file (135 folios)
Arrangement

The file’s contents are arranged into three parts. The first two parts have cover sheets with the headings Establishment (ff 2-23) and Circulars (ff 24-123) on them. Correspondence at the end of the file constitutes a third part of the file (ff 124-128). Within each part, the papers follow an 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 129-134) mirror the chronological arrangement.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 136; 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. Foliation anomalies: f 52a, f 52b.

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