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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [315r] (633/940)
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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II,
The British Irrigation Commission’s latest report,dated
the £Qtl» JJooonrilQO» ™ Q \r a,i Timarised as follows:-
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Euphrates
3*(a| r ^ The Commission has drawn up detailed plans and designs
for the development of the existing flood control works at the
Habbaniyah lake. This development should ensure flood control
of the river and will provide water for the irrigation of about
1.6 million acres. The estimated cost of the works is £3>375»000.
The work is planned to proceed in two stages, the first stage,
which would cost £2,7 millions and would provide irrigation water
for 730,000 acres, has already been put in hand and could,
it is estimated, be completed in two years;
(b) Additional flood control and water storage can be provided
by the construction of a reservoir utilising the Abu uibbis and
Bahr-al-Milh depressions. This project has not yet been surveyed in
detail but a preliminary investigation indicates that its cost
will be about £2 million and that it will provide irrigation water for
about 1,200,000 acres.
6. A number of alternative projects and combination of projects
for water storage on the Tigris have been examined. As a result,
the Commission has now recommended to the Iraq Government
(c) that the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Tharthar project should be developed
as the main flood control and water storage reservoir for the
Tigris, (see fi.E.(o) (47)3? paragraph 5)» This project, wnich can
be carried out by stages, involves the construction of a barrage
across the Tigris at Samarra and of long inlet and outlet channels.
The first stage, which will provide for flood control only, is
estimated pJjjO cost £7 million. The second stage will cost an
additional million and, will provide irrigation water for
about 2.7 million acres. It is considered that this project
will alone ensure complete flood control of the Tigris and its
tributaries except on rare occasions. The Commission recommends
that, to make flood c^rtrol complete and also to provide
additional ir^ig^.tioi water, the
wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Tharthar project would be
supplemented by:
(d) A dam at the Gibraltar site on the ioiya 1 a, This project
has been prepared in detail It is estimated that it will cost
1.3 ^2,580,000: and will provide irrigation water for 1.2 million acres.
(e) A dam at Bokhan on the lesser Zab. Plans for this
project are being drawn up. It is estimated that it will
cost about £3 million, and will provide irrigation water for
about 1.4 million acres.
(11) Irri gation B^ve lopm ent.
7* Id addition to the water storage w ;rks described
Tigris:
/ ab ove.
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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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