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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [418r] (839/940)
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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other circumstances OOTernment should perform.
2. It can provide the capital outlay for the supply of the
mechanised equipment necessary to develop the area on a
lar.e scale, and it can operate that equipment on a
hire-contract basis. It can provide and run the maintenance
ana servicing facilities necessary for the efficient
operation of this machinery.
3* It can provide the technical organisation necessary for
the eiiiclent cultivation and development of the large tract
within its sphere of activity.
4* It can undertake or assist in the development of the water
resources of the area and their utilisation for agricultural
purposes.
5* It can undertake the organisation of the marketing of the
produce.
6. By thorough cultivation, the use of the most modern
scientific technique, the adoption of crop rotations suited to
the needs and possibilities of the locality, the rational use
of fertilisers, good seed, the control of Insect pests and
diseases, in short, by the adoption of sound crop husbandry,
it will obtain the greatest return from the land at least
cost and in the shortest time: simultaneously it will secure
uniform development throughout the area.
Another organisation whose methods of working repay study
is the Overseas Food Corporation of Great Britain. This
organisation derives the finance with which it operates from a
grant of £55. million sterling, voted by the British Parliament.
Its first activities have been directed to the well-known £ast
African Groundnuts Scheme, a project to bring under cultivation
over 3 million acres of land, hitherto Jungle, for the production
of groundnuts and crops in rotation therewith.
More recently, in conjunction with the Government of
Queensland, the Corporation has been associated with setting up a
nueensland-Brltish Pood Corporation under their Joint auspices,
with the immediate task of cultivating 250,000 acres of land, now
grmxing, for the production of certain food grains. Of the
•stimatad capital expenditure of £2j millions Australian on this
project, the Corporation is to provide £2 millions and the
Government of Queensland £j million.
It is understood that the Corporation has been exploring the
possibilities of assisting in the similar development of a large
tract of country in New Guinea*
These particular organisations are mentioned in order to
give an idea of the scale on which such Bodies work and the
functions which they perform, so that Syria may consider the
feasibility of bringing into being some such Body for the
development of the Jezlreh. Naturally no organisation of this
nature will be prepared to function without adequate security
against the termination of contract with changes of Government,
and it will require a long period arrangement in view of its
considerable investment.
The remarks in the foregoing paragraphs are relevant to the
question of man-power requirements for the agricultural
development of the Jezireh, as different types of development will
require different degrees of intensity of agricultural labour:
mechanisation/
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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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