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Ext 2401/42 'Middle East: recruitment of RAF levies' [25r] (49/104)
The record is made up of 1 file (52 folios). It was created in 19 Apr 1942-29 Jul 1942. 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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[THIS TELEGRM IS OF PARTICULAll SECRECY AND SHOULD BE , ‘
RETAINED BY THE AUTHORISED RECIPIENT AND NOT PASSED
On [?gp.omtd. ]I again sounded the Prme Minister in <
general terras on the subject of frontier guards, making it
clear that I had no definite instructions. His Excellency
saw no difficulty in raising such a force on the lines
explained in my telegram No. 533 to you.
( 2 ) I am inclined to agree with you'lhat the proposed
force would not be very reliable and on reflection I am rather
doubtful whether the expenditure of say £ 20,000 a month could
be justified though the economic benefits in the northern
[gp.undec ?boundaries] (where conditions are difficult due to
crop failures etc.) would be marked. But the essential point
is, I believe, the impossibility of guaranteeing that, if the
war situation deteriorated to such an extent as to involve a
direct attack against this country, the morale of any irregular
force would remain sufficiently high to result in any effective
resistance.. In that case all our expenditure and effort
would be wasted. For this and other reasons it might perhaps
be preferable - and cheaper - if and when an emergency
threatens to employ selected British officers to subsidize
reliable sheikhs and to lead their gangs to harass the enemy
v/herever and however possible. They would probably be as
reliable as any "Home Guard" if not more so, but if they failed
to play we could cut off payments and would be far less out of
pocket.
(3) The Army Commander has seen and agrees with this
telegram*
[1. Copies sent to Mr. Armstrong,
2. Repeated to Minister of State Cairo as Foreign Office
telegram No. 1141,
3. Copies sent to
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.
for repetition to Government
WAR CABINET DISTRIBUTIO N.
FROM IRA Q.
FROM BAGDAD TO FOREIGN OFFICE .
Sir K. Cornwallis
No. 558 .
2 r 9th May, 1942.
D. 10.00 p.m. 29th May, 1942.
R. 4.50 a.m. 30th May, 1942*
Repeated to .QF.qF.p ncnTn T\Tn^ 19.R.
povernmenr oi
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Beirut,
Tehran Saving
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INDIA OFFICE
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams between the Foreign Office, 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. , the RAF (Royal Air Force) Headquarters in the Middle East, the Minister of State in Cairo, 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. , and the British Envoy in Baghdad, and discusses the recruitment of 130,000 units for the RAF in Iraq, Persia, Syria, and among the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. States.
In Iraq the levies were recruited mostly among the Armenian, Assyrian Kurd, Yazidi and Arab minorities.
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- 1 file (52 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 52; 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.
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- Title
- Ext 2401/42 'Middle East: recruitment of RAF levies'
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- front, front-i, 2r:51v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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