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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [405r] (813/940)
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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(E 2499/1103/34)
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PERSIA* S SEVEN YEAR PLAN .
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The Plan was first announced in the Spring of 1946,
but this Plan which would have cost a total of about
450 million pounds was far beyond the financial capacity
of the Persian Government and in order to arrive at a more
selective programme and to be able to judge which schemes
were economically sound, the Persian Government invited a
Commission of United States engineers to visit the country.
The Commission arrived at the end of 1946, and after
completing their investigations, they submitted a report
to the Persian Government in July, 1947. The general
finding of the Commission was.that Persia*s major efforts
should be directed tov/ards an increased efficiency in
agricultural production and it was emphasised that industry
should be left to develop slowly and naturally. The
planners prepared a list of schemes which they considered
should be carried out under the 250 million dollar
programme. The present bill is based on this report and
envisages a development programme to be carried out in
7-8 years at a cost of 21,000 million rials or at the
official rate of exchange, some 160 million pounds to be
expended as follows
For
the
year
1948-49
1 ,000
million
rials
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1949-50
2,000
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1950-51
2,800
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1951-52
3,200
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1952-53
3,500
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1953-54
3,600
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1954-55
3,600
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1955-56
2,200
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The importance of the present Plan lies in the fact
that it is the first attempt to carry out a long-term Plan
of economic reform in Persia which has been effectively
prevented in recent years by the lack of continuity in
governments (there have been some 90 governments in the 42
years since the proclamation of the Constitution) and
according to Article 1 of the Lav/ the Plan is designed ’’for
the purpose of increasing the productive capacity and
expansion in the volume of exports, preparing public
requirements at home, improvement in agriculture and
industry, exploitation of mines and other resources
especially oil, completion of means of transport, reforms
in public health and for carrying out measures in the
development of the country, raising the general standard of
life and education, bettering employment conditions and
reduction in the cost of living”. For these various purposes,
the total sum available has been allotted hs follows
Million rials.
Agriculture and irrigation 5,£5^
Motor-roads, railways, ports,
and aerodromes 5,000
Extension and development of
industries, exploration and
exploitation of mines 3,000
Iranian Oil Company 1 ,000
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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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