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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [141v] (286/940)
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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143/
( 1 ii) Maikop O
136* Tho oilfioldc of tho Kuban in the Maikop-Krasnodar
area were before the war among the most promising fields of
the Soviet Union. The Germans occupied the field in 1942
and there is no doubt that with Soviet scorched earth, and
German devastation in retreat, no field could have been more
thoroughly destroyed. The Plan speaks generally of restoring
the field to its prewar output by 1950 but it seems clear
that this will only be in a general sense and actual putput
will not attain the best prewar levels*
137. The oil is refined partly at Krasnodar and partly
at Tuapse, to both of which there are pipelines.
(iv) Dagestan
138. The Dagestan field was opened at Makhach Kala only
after the war had started. Output began in June 1942 with
one well of 150 tons daily production and by the end of 1943
the field was producing 600 tons per day. About 600,000 tons
are to be produced in 1950, but as explained at the end of
paragraph 124 , separate plan figures for those fields have
not been published.
139. Oil is transported from the fields by rail and
Caspian tanker from Makhach Kala. A refinery is reported
to be under construction at the field.
(v) Georgia
140. Oil was produced in Georgia in small quantities
before tho war. The Georgian Oil Trust, Gruzneft, is of cours
to be distinguished from Grozneft, the Grozny oil trust.
So far, prospecting and exploratory drilling is- the principal
task, but fields at Norio, Gromi, Supsa, Kayt'es-Khev and
Mirzaani are in production and the Plan lays down the 1950
target as 110,000 tons.
141# Tho crude is refined at Lilo near Tbilisi and the
products are-consumed within the Georgian S.S.R.
(vi) Emba
142. The oilfields in the Emba-Dossor area lie in the
desert area at the north east end of the Caspian. An
outlying field at Aktyubinsk is geologically part of it, but
is organised as a separate Trust. Production at Emba rose
from 247>000 tons in 1932 to 697,000 tons in 1940 and an
intensive campaign on the outbreak of war, raised output in
1943 to 1,000,000-tons. There was p rapid fall-off in
exploitation when the North Caucasian fields could be again
used, and 1945 output was some 700,000 tons. The Five-Year
Plan lays down renewed expansion and 1950 output is to be
1 , 200,000 tons.
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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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