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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [38r] (80/940)
The record is made up of 1 file (468 folios). It was created in 20 Mar 1949-13 Dec 1949. 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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The staple crop throughout the country is dftp 3 -? and
of these some are exported. Whether, however, with better
internal transport facilities this surplus, which arises
mainly in the north east on the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
® oas ^» ^? u ^ d not
he absorbed inside the country is a moot point. Wheat and
sorghums are grown fairly generally, as are pass crops
for fodder. Citrus fruits, grapes, pomegranates, apricots,
and peaches and other fruits are grown on a small sc a p
in the mountains of the Hejaz and in the neighbourhood
of Aneiza, and some market gardening is carried on near to
the larger towns. Improved methods would undoubtedly
increase yields in every case, but except in the case oi
dates (for which there is as yet no packing plant ^
country) and perhaps almonds in the Asir, there is
prospect of doing more than meeting the local demand.
The only existing project of which great things were
hoped is the A1 Kharj agricultural project,
Arabian American Oil Company at the request of the ^overnmen
by a United States Government Mission m 1942, and taken over
by Arabian American Oil Company in 1943. This
could, and should, serve as an experimental station where
eeeds and methods suitable to the requirements ^f S pp pad
Arabian agriculture would be tested and developed, instead
It has come to be merely a market garden on the grand scale
for the supply of foodstuffs, fruit and vegetables to the
Royal Household in Riyadh. Latterly, however, difficulties
have been met with because of soil salinity and b ecause of the
refusal of the Saudi Arabian authorities to allow fields to
He fallow or systematic rotation of crops to be foxlowea,
production has therefore fallen sharply. Further similar
schemes, on a smaller scale, are now being developed, under
the auspices of the Minister of Finance, at Hofuf and
Ketif, while the Minister of Finance has instituted a
private scheme at Dammam.
From 1942 to 1947 the Middle East Anti-Locust Unit
carried out extensive campaigns against the desert locust ^
in Saudi Arabia. The Government did not contribute financially
to these campaigns, but facilities were provided and an
atmosphere of friendly co-operation developed between the Unit
(who travelled in many little known parts of the country) nd
the local authorities. The Unit’s work is now being
on in a modified form by the Desert Locust Survey, which
based in Nairobi.
2 f Animal Husbandry
Animal husbandry, the herding of camels, sheep, goats and
horses, and in Hasa province the raising of a particularly
fine type of white donkey, was until very few years ago the
staple industry of the bulk of the bedouin population of the
interior, but this is rapidly changing with the advent of the
motor car as the normal means of desert transport. Camels,
sheep and hides are exported to Iraq, Syria and Egypt, ^ ut
the emphasis is now on the beast of burden and the butcher s
needs, rather than on the costly riding camel of other days.
Horse breeding in Arabia is almost dead. These
have impoverished the tribes so far as their traditional
of income is conaerned, but in compensation some few have been
partially settled on the land in recent years by Ibn Saud and
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The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and Commonwealth governments; and a register of papers received or sent by the CRO relating to the Committee, with internal CRO correspondence (at the back of the file).
The file includes agendas for meetings of the Committee, and minutes of the meetings on 28 April, 5 May, 5 July and 19 July 1949. Matters discussed and recorded in the minutes include: the reconstitution of the Committee; the re-settlement of Arab refugees from Palestine; the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East by the Working Party of the Committee; the future work of the Committee; the Conference of HM Representatives in the Middle East to be held in London from 26 to 29 July 1949; United States President Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ (Truman’s message of 24 June 1949 to the United States House of Representatives, communicating a ‘Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation to Authorise an Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas of the World’); and further studies of the Working Party.
The file also includes the following papers prepared by (or approved by) the Working Party of the Committee: draft, revised and interim versions of the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East; papers relating to the economic and social development of Iraq, Syria, Greater 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 , Egypt, the Lebannon, Saudi Arabia, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Eritrea and Somalia, and the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; and a paper on Middle East oil.
In addition, the file includes other papers relating to matters discussed at the meetings, and the following subjects: 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 ; irrigation development in Iraq; Persia’s [Iran’s] Seven Year Plan for development; informal conversations on social and economic affairs in the Middle East between representatives of the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the British Embassy in Washington, and the United States State Department; the work of the Development Division of British Middle East Office; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic development in Cyprus in relation to the Middle East.
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- 1 file (468 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received and sent by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 468; 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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