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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [303r] (609/940)
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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STATISTICS
qoTS.
Owing to my Rbaenee In th« 0.K. At -Het
D^cesaber, 194^, the last qa&rteriy report of the
Developaent Diviiion included no nct« on my
ActiTitleA for the period ending that date,and the
prea^nt report i'a therefore a double one covering
a period of six aionthe.
Polloving return frum Syria and the
Lebanon In September and asy laftediately preceding
atay of eeven aontha in Pereia, I vafi able to epead
the flrat eix veeha of the quarter andlng Deetsoar
31st on office worlr, thla period being the longeat
apent in Cairo in the whole of 1946, Even thia was
interrupted by a thra® week sojourn In ho«pital r twt
during this I was able to ooapiete ay confidantial
reporta on wy Pereian. Iraq. Syrian and Lebaneae
work and to draft a 55~pag;$ Interln report for the
Persian Government containing the Important urgent
recomiaandfttiona on the at&tlatice of each Government
Department resulting from *y invsatlgallone during
the Spring, At the same tiae I received an invita
tion from the British Ambassador in Tehran to proceed
to that city as soon as possible in order to be
present, along with Sir Herbert Stewart,during the
visit of the Phase I (high level/preiialnary aarvey)
f roup of Oversea* Consrultantc- The completion of the
erel&n Interim report was therefore particularly
timely, since it provided the excuse to the Persian
.Government for ®y visit; equally timely vae the
arrival on November 2nd of the newly appointed
Assistant Statistical Adviser, Mr. W,J, Rollo, which
provided the means to release ac from a commitment
in the Lebanon, It will be rcoeafcered that while
the poet of Assistant Statistical Advlaer had been
sanctioned In December 1947 f a eerie a of ml ^fortunes
had lost us the very good candidate selected for the
post and delayed the appointment. The work of
advising on statistics io inevitably detailed and
very readily becomes executive; consequently long
peri ode have to be epent; In any one country. At the
same time with economic development in the air, the
need for good adnsinietrativc statistics i» felt even
by Kiddle East Governmente. The demands for ay
servicea had been, far aver a year, much more than
one man could meat. The arrival of Hollo appeared to
provide the aolution to the problem of ay being in
two or more places at once.
After careful briefing, Polio was rent to
the Lebanon in «id~Nove#ber to undertake an analysis
of mortality statistic#,,necessary If the Government
Actuary wae to aupplement the work on aoclal insurance
undertaken by Prof. Hobr.on, an analyels which the
Lebanese appeared quite Incapable,if not undeciroue,
of preoaring thesaeslv^g. Hollo, who had never before
left the U,K,,encountered the full force of the
Lohanee® paselve resistance move-ment and had made
little or no progress wher., on the death of hi* father,
he returned to Britain and promptly resigned, thereby
disorganising the whole of my plans far work in the
Spring and leaving the offlot in the lurch.
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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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