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Coll 5/81 ‘Facilities for U.S. Air Transport Corps at Bahrein and Sharjah’ [36r] (71/291)
The record is made up of 1 file (144 folios). It was created in 30 Nov 1943-9 Jul 1945. 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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Tel. No. Abbey 3411.
AIR MINISTRY,
Ext
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Whitehall, S.W.l.
V
’^\'j 7th March, 1^44.
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Dear Peel,
Dean has had your letter of 2nd March suggesting
that the United States Air Force on the spot should be
asked to notify any local requirements they might have
to the R.A.F. Station Commander at Bahrain or Shargah.
I an writing on his behalf after discussion with him.
Your suggestion is entirely right in itself, but
the difficulty is that if we make a. formal request of
this kind from high quarters they will at once feel that
we are making he; vy weather of it and entrenching
ourselves very carefully. Can we secure the same end
less obtrusively?
The view taken here is that 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.
and the Station Comnanders should be instructed to put
it informally to the Americans, at the first suitable
opportunity, that it would be convenient to everyone if
they would deal in the first instance with the Station
Commanders on any point arising in their use of these
air ^ stations. It is difficult at this distance to
indicate precisely how this can most easily be put acros
we don't even know the kind of “requests to the local
authorities 11 that are being made^
^^«a.on at a distance is always very difficult in any
matter involving personal relationships and local details.
»«e there!ore think it would be wiser, if you agree, to
.. telegraph to our local authorities in the general sense
of {this letter, leaving its application to them.
*• i
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.
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The file contains papers related to the provision of facilities for the United States Air Transport Command at both Bahrain and Sharjah. This includes policy and strategy discussions over how best to maintain British control of the Arabian Coast Air Route; British planners feared that the United States might use facilities, built using American personnel and finance, as a lever for post-war concessions in civil aviation. It therefore includes correspondence related to the leasing of land, and the construction of buildings, by the Royal Air Force (RAF) for the use of the United States.
A map showing Bahrain Oil Company (BAPCO) establishments in Bahrain can be found on folio 127, and a table showing the facilities required by the United States can be found on folio 102.
The main correspondents are as follows: 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. (Charles Geoffrey Prior), 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. at Bahrain (Tom Hickinbotham), officials of the Air Ministry, officials 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. (Roland Tennyson Peel, Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison, and Dennis Mackrow Cleary), officers of Air Headquarters in Iraq, and representatives of the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.
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.
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- 1 file (144 folios)
- Arrangement
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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 145; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 5/81 ‘Facilities for U.S. Air Transport Corps at Bahrein and Sharjah’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:13v, 15r:126v, 128r:144v, back-i, 145v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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