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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [129r] (261/940)
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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a minimum ront of £ 15,000 (gold) per annum is payable, rising
to <280,000 (gold) per annum over 15 years. Royalties will be
pyable in lieu of rent when oil in sufficient quantities is
produced, hut so far none has been struck. Drilling was carried
out between 1939 and 1941 in the neighbourhood of Palmyra,
Bichri and Jebel Sinjar. In 1947 and 1948 the Company drilled
unsuccessful exploratory wells at Baflioun 30 miles N.N.W.
of Aleppo, at Dolaa, 95 miles S.E. and Toual Abba 115 miles E.
of Aleppo,
24. The Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline from Kirkuk to
Tripoli (Lebanon) crosses Syrian territory and a 16-inch
line is under construction to parallel the 12 -inch line.
Their proposal for a 30-inch line from Kirkuk to Banias
(capacity 13 million tons a year) is still in the planning
stage. ^
25. An agreement was signed and ratified in June 1949 between
^ o ? ov ernment and Middle East Pipelines Ltd. in respect
?"• 7 o4/36-inch pipeline, with an annual capacity of million* 1 *
tons, to be constructed from Iran and Kuwait to Tartus, on the
Syrian coast. The pipeline company is a subsidiary of
Standard of New Jersey and Socony Vacuum, the
£?nn 1 S ^T?? rtn + r su 5 scpibin £ £35 million and the U.S. partners
01 0 million towards the estimated cost of the project. The
pipeline i's expected to be completed by 1953. A refinery
agreement was also signed and ratified in June 1949, between the
Mar i tirae Refineries Ltd., the latter a
re?ir,erv 4 + m ^ 0f A * I -°- C - is planned to errect a
refinery at Tartus with an annual thoroughput capacity of ^
the canci?v S ? +V V 11 ty 1953 &t a ° 0St of a ^ out million,
tonser 1 annum• ^ lnery to be leased later to 7 million
26. In May 1949 , after protracted negotiations, the Syrian
assembly ratified a pipeline transit agreement, originally
made m September^ 1947, with the Trans-Arabian Pipeline y
Company, a subsidiary of the Arabian American Oil Company.
Construction of the 30/32-inch pipeline from the Saudi
Arabian oilfields to a Mediterranean terminal at Sidon in
n? q 88 March but the refusal (now lifted)
a L^ he A S -, a ? th ° rltles to S^ant export licences for the
steel tube delayed operations until early 1949 , aftSr the
completion of a short segment only, in Saudi Arabia.
A. LEBANON
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:42r, 43r:116v, 120r:259v, 261r:294v, 296r:436v, 442r:468v
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