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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [298r] (599/940)
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 11th tc i/tb iehr.uar^, Mr* Aufisley waa
IriJJfegdad to follow up tile, siirvey which he made of labour
i?oh^ltI c^rs in Iraq in the summer of 194#* His
xacopaendation tlaat tjbe, Iraq Goverxixnsnt appoint a
British Labour expert sill probably fee carried oat in the
hear future *
Fhoa the 19th to the 31st March, Mr* Audsley was
on lour again, this time visiting Kirkuk in Iraq, Beirut
and Tripoli in the Lebaxscn, and finally Damascus, from
where he returned to Cairo on the 1st April* During his
visit to Beirut he was able to examine the latest draft of
the social insurance scheme which the Lebanese Government
propose to introduce, and he also met leaders of anti-
Cocuaunist groups cf Trade Unions and had opportunities to
discuss the methods of establishing and administering an
&&ploysent Exchange service,
?• Agr iculture .
At the beginning of the quarter, Sir Herbert
Stewart’s programme was thrown somewhat out of <*ear because
he was expecting to be called to Persia to wor): with the
Overseas Consultants Incorporated Gro up. After* some
tiresome delays and contradictory messages from the Embassy
at Tehran, it eventually transpired that O.C.I. had brought
out their own agricultural experts and that Sir Herbert
Stewart’s services were not required* During the time he
was waiting for news from Persia, Sir Herbert Stewart was
asked tc visit Equatoria and later Cyprus, but he was
unable to make these visits as an urgent request came from
the Eucan, asking him to advise on abnormal conditions of
the cotton crop in the Jezireh, This was done at the
beginning of February. Early in March hs went to Bahrain,
at Sir Rupert Hay’s request, and he spent ten very useful
days touring the country and examining the possibilities of
agricultural development in that area. On his way back
from Bahrain Sir Herbert visited Bagdad, to study the
latest developments regarding irrigation end agriculture
and the conditions of employment of foreign experts in
Iraq, He returned to Cairo on the 12th March/
6- £orgat o_and Soil Conaervattop .
Early in February the Forestry Adviser went to
Cyprus for a week and at the end of February he left Cairo
for Persia. His experiences with the O.C.I* team have
already been reported to the Foreign Office in his non
confident ial and confidential notes written during his stay
there. As a result of this visit, Mr. Maitland was asked
to join the Q.C.I. team and write a report for Phase II, and
he will^be with the A?cericans in Persia until the end of
May. It is possible that he will be invited to return in
October for Phase III, but it is still hoped that O.C.I.
can be induced to engage British, experts to carry out
Mr. Maitland’s recommendations and leave him free to continue
the excellent work which he has started in other Middle
East countries.
During..n.
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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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