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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [314v] (632/940)
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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project is already in hand. . Tho Commission’s
recommendations for the Tigris have now been studied by
the Consulting Engineers who have recommended an alternative
combination of works which would be rather more expensive.
Their recommendations are summarised in Part II below. ^
When the Iraq Government has taken-a decision as between
these recommendations and those of Mr.Haigh, it is hoped
that the first stage of the works will be put in hand
without further delay.
Finance s '
3. The Commission anticipated that a large
proportion of the capital expenditure will be recovered
from the increase in land values resulting from the works,
and that revenue sufficient to make the various prpjects
productive will be obtained. They have'submitted detailed
proposals to the Iraq Government for a taxation system
to cover the cost of the works, involving the levying of
taxes on urban property, irrigated land and the crops produced.
Meanwhile the International Bank are considering the possibility
of a loan to finance the cost of the.first stages of the scheme,
estimated as follows:-
Project
Period for
Sterling
Dollar
Dinar cost
Completion
cost
cost
Completion of
Habbaniyah
project.
•3 years-
£”00,000
-
ID,1,700,000
First Stage
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Tharthar
project
3 years-
£1,437,700
,26,483,200
ID. 3,921,200
Gibraltar dam
3 years
£1,256,000
^ 360,000
ID.l,288,000
on Diyala
Total
£2,993,700
26,843,200
ID.6,909,200
The Bank are sending a technical mission to Iraq in June to study
these projects.
4* Future of the C ommiss ion:
The Haigh Irrigation Commission is now being* disbanded,
although Mr.Haigh himself, with a nucleus of British engineers, is
remaining in Iraq until after the visit of the International Bank
Mission. It is hoped that the Iraqi Government will, then agree
to prolong Mr.Haigh’s contract until early in 1950 in order to
enable him to write up and publish his conclusions in detail.
It is also hoped that a Development Branch of the Irrigation De
partment will now be set up under a British Irrigation engineer
whose functions would be:-
(a) To continue the work of the Commission in planning the
construction of smaller storage v/orks, distribution wo«fc£,
and land drainage, and
(b) To keep alive and interpret to the Iraq Government the
work of the Commission.
II.
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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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