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Coll 17/7(2) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway' [12r] (23/495)
The record is made up of 1 file (246 folios). It was created in 7 May 1936-2 Sep 1936. 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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than doubled. If it were practicable to prevent all
civil or commercial traffic from usin.p a road constructed
to the Air • inistry specification, the latter could be
accepted as just meeting essential military requirements,
but it would be impossible to do this and, in that case,
the 'ar Office view was that a road on the Air Ministry
basis would break down.
Tim CIjAIRMAI! said that he thought the
Sub -Com*ni 11 e e
generally would accept the principle that, if a road
were to be constructed at all, it should be one capable
of carrying commercial traffic.
fiR. KALI) observed that, since it was probably
impracticable to keep commercial traffic off the road,
it must be built to a specification to provide for that
traffic if it was to remain fit for military use in
the emergency.
GHOUP-CAPTAII'T ST EVENS 017 said, in reply to a
question, that under our Treaty obligations we were
obliged to come to the assistance of Iraq in the event of
aggression upon her by some other country. So far as
internal security is concerned, our Ambassador would
no doubt be consulted by the Iraqi Government, and if
it were decided to send assistance, troops might have
to be moved across the desert. There was also the
question of moving troops in support of British units
already in the country if our interests were seriously
tnreatened. It was impossible to lay down in advance
our precise requirements in these respects.
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This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2851, and concerns the decision not to proceed with the proposed Haifa-Baghdad railway, but to focus on the improvement of road communications.
The file consists of reports on the proposals submitted by the Palestine Corporation Limited (see IOR/L/PS/12/2851 ff 14-30), and alternative proposals and surveys submitted by the War Office, the Air Ministry, and the Director of Public Works for Trans-Jordan. The reports were submitted as evidence to the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Ministerial and Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, and appear in the file alongside the Committee minutes, as follows:
- Record of a meeting held at the Colonial Office on 15 February 1935, to consider the improvement of road communication between Haifa and Baghdad, ff 126-133.
- Report of the War Office on the military requirements for the road, ff 142-147.
- Report on the Mafraq Road submitted by T T Taylor, Engineer in Charge, Nazareth, ff 154-156.
- 'Preliminary Report on the Section of Haifa Bagdad Road in Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ', by Mr Ghorayeb, Director of Public Works, Trans-Jordan, ff 157-213.
- Minutes of the Forty-seventh Meeting of the Sub-Committee held at 2 July 1936, regarding the Baghdad-Haifa Road, ff 114-121.
- Records submitted for the Forty-eight Meeting of the Sub-Committee, comprising Air Ministry Proposals and Estimated Costs, copies of despatches between the Colonial Office and the High Commissioner for Palestine, and a War Office Report and Estimated Cost prepared by Major R Briggs, ff 22-109.
- Note by the Secretary of the Sub-Committee, providing a summary of the proposed Haifa-Baghdad road scheme, ff 3-21.
- Folio 21 is a 'General Map of Pipe Line Routes & Environs', and was to be appended to the War Office Report.
The file also contains correspondence regarding the proposals, between the High Commissioner for Palestine and Trans-Jordan, the War Office, and the Crown Agents for the Colonies.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 2).
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- 1 file (246 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 247; 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 additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-247; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2852
- Title
- Coll 17/7(2) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:20v, 22r:110v, 112r:247v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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