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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [419r] (841/940)
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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mechanisation under a fully regimented Corporation programme making
the fullest use of the land will require one decree of human
labour: mechanisation of the present individually run type will
need a different rate: cultivation by animal power on a peasant
baaie will have entirely different and vastly greater needs than
either of them 9 for example:-
(a) On the dOO f OOC acres cultivated by the Sudan Plantations
Syndicate where cropping 9 as in Jezireh 9 is also mainly of the
one-season-a-year type but 9 unlike it 9 is done entirely under
lrrlgation 9 each tenant and his family has an area of 1*0 acres
on which all the initial ploughing and ridging operations are
performed for him by mechanisation. The tenant keeps no
cattle; he merely provides the human labour element,
(b) On the Sudan <vhlte Nile Schemes where there is no
mechanisation and where cultivation is done by communally-
owned bullocks 9 the holding of each tenant and hie family is
Id acres of irrigated land,
(e) On the Italian Demographic Settlement in Trlpolltanla where
cultivation ia by animal drawn Implements 9 the area controlled
by the cultivator and his family may be 25 acres entirely
lrrlgated 9 or 60 p.cres of which 12 are irrigated* or from 75
to 150 acres all ti. which ia rainfed land, according to local
conditions of soil and climate.
(d) The original estimates of the East African Groundnuts'
Scheme, where as in most of the Jezireh, cropping is rainfed,
calculated that one man will be sufficient to provide the
entire human labour requirements for the agricultural
operations on 100 acres when the land is in full production.
It may be assumed that he will be accompanied by his wife and
family.
These data give some indication of the dgree to which
agricultural labour is absorbed by different types of large-scale
organised farming under Eastern conditions. The ability or
otherwise of Syria to provide labour on any comparable scale for
the development of the agricultural resources of the Jezireh
calls for consideration.
Data in regard to population, cultivated and culturable waste
land in Syria are contained in an official publication covering
1946, The figures relevant to the present subject have been
suosnarlsed in the attached statement. It should be understood
clearly that the existing methods of collecting agricultural
statistics in Syria are very imperfect and that the data here
presented are estimates rather than actualities.
Accepting the figures at their face values it will be
observed that - 1
1• The total population of Syria is less than 3 millions,
2, The cultivated area is estimated at under 5i million acres,
3# The culturable waste is estimated to be more than 8^
million acres,
4* The population of the country as a whole represents 515
persons of all ages, both urban and rural, per 1,000 acres
of cultivated land in Syria.
5. The/
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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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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:42r, 43r:116v, 120r:259v, 261r:294v, 296r:436v, 442r:468v
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