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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [376r] (755/940)
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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Status Government and the French Government, who would
jointly guarantee the Bank’s loans to Middle East States to •
whom commercial lending was impracticable;
(d) The Import-Export Bank, which in certain circumstances
^ is prepared itself to undertake projects in
undeveloped areas. The considerations which govern
the loan policy of the International Bank apply,
however, equally to the Import-Export Bank; * .
(e) Sir John Troutbeck suggested that it might be
possible to work out some scheme whereby the immense
oil royalties which would shortly be accruing to the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Sheikhdoms, where very little scope for
development exists, could be utilised for regional
development.
5. Expert advice on P.elief and Resettlement
Mr. McGhee then outlined his conception of the sort of
long-term United Nations Belief and Resettlement Organization
which would be required. He suggested that its functions
should be:
(i) to investigate the resettlement possibilities within
the framework of existing development plans and to
coordinate the assistance, both financial and
technical, which can be given to these plans by
the United Nations Specialised Agencies, the
International Bank, the Import-Export Bank, the
British and United Stat s Government and any other
sources;
(ii) to administer the relief programme and find short
term work for refugees who could not be immediately
resettled (this programme was much more likely to
secure acceptance by the United Nations and the
United States and other governments if it formed
part of a practical resettlement programme);
(iii) to assist the refugees in the actual process of
resettlement.
There should be a small team of experts who should on no account
duplicate survey work already carried out. He considered
that this team could most appropriately be attached to the
Conciliation Commission. It could be set up without
reference to the General Assembly who would probably be
unwilling to establish a new
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
, but might be prepared
to accept an accomplished fact. Its Head should be a
leading United States business man and its deputy Head
should be British. (A written statement of Mr. McGhee’s
proposals is attached as (3)).
Mr. Wright welcomed hr. McGhee’s proposals. He said
that they would nowbe urgently studied in the Foreign Office,
and then submitted to the Secretary of State on his return
to this country. As soon as the .Secretary of State’s views
were known, we would communicate at once with the State
.Department.
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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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