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Coll 6/17 'Syria: Political situation in Syria' [37r] (73/180)
The record is made up of 1 file (88 folios). It was created in 20 Nov 1931-4 Jul 1946. It was written in English and French. 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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f&onomy measures to be applied by
the 3; rlan administration*
^ Mlft-igterial deo isions. published in i^aiaasous irss a. August i^rd*
1. Ain tfije water* ilie ministry of Finance will sell its re
maining holdings in Pije water at a discount, thirty fire
instead of forth fire gold pounds per cubic metro daily fcr
cash, or four quarterly payments amounting to forty five
gold pounds*
2 * ions!one* (Jovarn^ort dues on pension are raised from seven
to ten per cent*
Philately* Twenty thousand sets of stumps at one hundred
francs each will be issued surcharged "Proclamation of the
"Syrian Bepublio"*
4* Ooinage* Issue of netallio currency to a value of three
hundred thousand Syrian pounds*
5* Officials* a committee to study possibilities of applying
the axe* Compulsory retirement at sixty or on completion
of forty years' service*
6 * Officials under contract* Those not considered indispensable
will pass osfore the committee mentioned above*
7* Allowances, cumulated salaries, percentages on taxes
collected* Suppression, except in case of professors of the
University and tax-collectors agreeing to reduce their
percentage to half*
8 * Travelling allowances* Kcduotion of 25
9* Official cars* Suppressed and garages closed*
10. government and University printing presses* The latter to t*
suppressed and the former modified so as to replace it*
11* Banderole* Budget reduced from one hundred and sixty
thousand Syrian pounds to one hundred thousand, the
difference to be used for organising anti-smugglin’: service*
12. Urban services* Beformed, budget reauced to one hundred
and forty five thousand Syrian pounds, meteorological service
to be ’’modified".
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This file relates to changes to the administration of French-ruled Syria during the 1930s and early to mid-1940s.
The file consists of copies of received Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. Most of the correspondence received by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir John Simon; Anthony Eden; Viscount Halifax) is either from His Majesty's Consul at Damascus (Edwyn Cecil Hole, succeeded by Gilbert Mackereth) or from His Majesty's Consul at Aleppo (George Evelyn Arthur Cheyne Monck-Mason, succeeded by Archibald William Davis).
The French material in the file consists of copies of decrees, correspondence and a communique produced by the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon (Auguste Henri Ponsot; Damien de Martel; Gabriel Puaux).
Items of discussion include the following:
- The political atmosphere in Aleppo and Damascus in the run-up to Syria's first parliamentary elections under its new constitution, in late 1931 and early 1932.
- An attempted assassination of Subhi Bey Barakat [Subhi Bay Barakat al-Khalidi], former President of Syria, by a student from Homs, in 1932.
- Reports of tense relations in Aleppo, between Syrians identified as 'moderates' and 'extremists' by the British, following the elections.
- Reports on the first sessions of the new Syrian Parliament in June 1932.
- Details of a 1937 decree issued by the French High Commissioner, granting a general amnesty to those referred to in the correspondence as 'political offenders'.
- The resignation of the Syrian Government in March 1939 and the resignation of the Syrian President [Hashim Bay Khalid al-Atassi] on 7 July 1939.
- The resignation of the Syrian Defence Minister, Nabih el Azmeh [Nabi al-Azmeh], in June 1946.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (88 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 89; 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 external leather cover wraps around the documents; the front inside of this cover has been foliated as folio 1.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2083
- Title
- Coll 6/17 'Syria: Political situation in Syria'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:8r, 10r:21v, 26r:73v, 81r:84r, 87r:89v, 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