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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [256v] (516/940)
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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III# The Agricultural Department
The functions and scope of the activities of the Department
are too limited, if progress in agricultural development is to
be made within a reasonable period of time. Expansion requires
men, facilities and material. Without adequate financial
provision these requirements cannot be provided.
IV, Finances
For a country so essentially agricultural as
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
,
in which 85% of the ^population is engaged in agricultural
activities and which has no other major industry, and ordinary
annual expenditure which represents less than 1.5$ of the total
budget expenditure of the Kingdom is inadequate if real progress
of to be made. Even with the addition of the extraordinary
expenditure this year the provision is still too low. The
funds provided in 1947 in the adjoining country of Syria represented
4.44% of the total budget expenditure. The latter figures include
forestry, which the
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
figure omits.
2.
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
should draw up a five-year programme of
agricultural development. It should assign priorities in regard
to agreed lines and should arrange for their finance according to
an approved schedule.
V. Staff
One of the greatest needs is senior staff for research
purposes. Research is indispensable to improvement. It alone
can point the way to sound development. The barest minimum
requirements are:-
(a) An agronomist for field experimentation on improved
methods of crop husbandry.
(b) An horticulturist to deal with fruits and vegetables,
in view of the importance of their development to the
future prosperity of the country.
(c) An economic botanist for the improvement of existing
crops by breeding and selection and for the introduction
of new crops.
(d) A soil chemist.
2. The policy of sending abroad at State expense selected nationals
for study of the sciences is particularly applicable to agriculture
and should be implemented with all speed. Ail such trainees should
be under contract to serve the Government for a specified number
of years on their return. It Is important that they be employed
in the sciences for which they have been trained. Too often it
happens in M.B. countries that the services of local men similarly
trained are utilised in Departments of Government where their
specialised education is of no particular use and is wasted.
3. Full development and improvement cannot take place in a
number of directions until research has pointed the way. If action
to begin such research is left to await the return of the nationals
sent abroad for study, progress will be delayed for at least 5
years. At least the first three posts suggested in para. 5 should
be created now and filled by the early recruitment of suitably
/qualified
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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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