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File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’ [25r] (51/60)
The record is made up of 1 part (29 folios). It was created in 19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917. 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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(W. 36846/16)
are also, so Sir E. Grey is informed, not averse to
adopt a like attitude.
(6) The oil question has an important hearing
upon considerations of foreign policy. The history
of the Mesopotamian oil negotiations before the war
afforded an example of the embarrassment which was
caused to this Department in dealing with a company
like the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company, Limited,
which, though British in domicile, is in fact
controlled by the Royal Dutch Company. After the
war, it will probably be essential, if an avenue is
not to be afforded for German economic penetration in
Egypt, in Mesopotamia, and elsewhere, that the
handling of concessions for the supply and distribu
tion of oil should be entrusted to a British group.
Neither the Burmah Oil Company nor the Anglo-Persian
Oil Company appear to dispose of the economic
independence, the areas of supply, or the coronercial
ability to enable them to fulfil the necessary
conditions.
(7) Sir E. Grey regards the present unsatisfac
tory position as disquieting; and he would suggest
that a committee, representing the several Departments
concerned, should be formed by the Board of Trade to
examine what are the desiderata which His Majesty's
Government should aim at, with a view to definite
action at an early date. He is persuaded that the
question cannot safely be left open until after the
war.
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A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and anticipation of post-war agreements. The principal correspondents are: the Assistant Undersecretary to the Foreign Office (Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen); Secretary of the Political Department of 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. (Sir Arthur Hirtzel); the Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC, Charles Greenway).
The correspondence includes:
- discussion of the elimination of German interests in Turkey and Arabia;
- the split between Britain and France of former Ottoman territories;
- existing APOC claims in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad;
- Shell Royal Dutch Group’s claims in the Mesopotamian oil concessions.
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- 1 part (29 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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- Title
- File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
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- 1r:1v, 2ar:2av, 2r:8v, 11r:27v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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