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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [210v] (424/940)
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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cultivable area. The Egyptian Government have
committed themselves to the execution of the Equatorial
Nile Project, the Lake Tana Project and the main Nile
Project, which together will make the greatest single
contribution to the development of Egyptian agriculture.
It is calculated that these projects will add one million
acres to the area at present under cultivation in Egypt, and
will facilitate the raising of more crops on the land at
present under basin irrigation. These projects, which
represent the ultimate exploitation of the Nile Waters, may not
be fully effective for 20 years.
Xii) Other Projects
A plan to bore tube wells in the basin-irrigated lands
of the Qena and Aswan provinces of Upper Egypt has recently been
evolved. The purpose is to tap underground resources of
water and use it for perennial irrigation. The first stage
(5 years) of the scheme provides for the installation over
an area of 125,000 acres of 500 pumping units to be served by
an electric power station at Qena. The second stage (also of
5 years) provides for the installation of 500 other units in
a further 125,000 acres, to be served by the hydro-electric
power station at Aswan. The present supplies of water at low
Nile do not permit the conversion of this area, which extends to
about 1 million acres, to perennial irrigation. Moreover, this
conversion is not possible until full control of the Nile flood
is secured by works further upstream, as the basins are a safety
valve in years of high floods. The Egyptian Government hope to
obtain a loan for this purpose from the International Bank.
Their estimate of the cost of the Project is £E 8 millions, of
which some £E 5 millions represents external expenditure.
This estimate is probably exaggerated.
Other schemes under consideration provide for:
the
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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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- Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction'
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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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