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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [304v] (612/940)
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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3. AgglBtant.•
It w&e clear that I could not In any caee
be seconded to the Persian C^overniaent without an
assistant of high-quality, who will In effect be a
replacement in ay abeence. The great part my of
working time io the U.K. was therefore spent In
searching for candidates. I considered that this
was beat done by personal contact and therefore
drafted, in conjunction with Middle East Secretariat
and Personnel Department, a circular letter explain
ing the nature of the work, the type of pereon
required and all details of the emoluments etc. This
> was despatched to all University Appointments Board®
all likely bodiee concerned.with statistics and a
considerable number of personal contacts. Xn most
cases the letter was followed up by a personal
approach to the sources concerned. By these mean©
about twelve satisfactory names were received and
all th« 0 Q candidates were interviewed,some in London
other® while X was on tjpur In Scotland during ay
leave. Three first cl®a and three good candidates
were produced by this and the not result Is that
despite the loss of one or.two of these,® eatlefaot-
cry appointment ie now highly probable and T have,at
the same time, acquired & w pool tt on which I can draw
for other appointments in the-Middle East.
4. Other Staffin g, Middle East .
I had been asked-by the Persian Government
to examine the ppeelbillty of obtaining British
personnel for two of the technical-poets which X had
recommended in my interim report vies Central
Statistical Bureau Adviser and Census Adviser. For
the former, it ime- clear that one of the better
candidatesg for the B.M.E.O, appointment would be
admirable; for the latter, X have obtained the
consent of Mr e David Pare!vai, who has Juat completed
the Cyprus Census, to come to Persia if asked. I had
a number of Interviews with Perelval and thought him
wholly suitable; and we got down to considerable
detail in regard to the proposed sensue organle&tion.
The confirmation of both appointment© avai-tc final
decision by the Persian Government in May; when X
gave them the names In March, the position on Ssvtn
Year Plan funds was not clear and no final decision
could be taken. I also, at the request; of the Iraq
Government, interviewed e number of candidates for
the post of Supervisor of the punched card machines
in the Central Statistical Bureau at Bagdad, These
interviews were carried out at the Iraqi Embassy and
X was able to secure a very suitable official in the
person of Mr. J. Ash-
I proceeded to Persia an 6th.March and
remained there a fortnight, partly in order to pro
gress the recommendations i had made in November,
(which are moving slowly,but not unsatisfactorily),
but mainly to clarify my position in relation to
0,0.1. Maitland had found that the.second Phase
group of this body were not «o forthcoming as the
first had been, and were inclined to cut themselves
apart from Governmental agencies,particularly their
own and our Embassies; nor did their expert®, though
their technical competence was unquestioned, appear
at the outset to have quite the necessary flair for
approach. My awn position was romewhat simplified
/... owing
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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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