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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [‎76r] (151/642)

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The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 11 Apr 1949-13 Apr 1950. 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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understood to be installing additional pumping plant and
replacing pipe-lines as well as providing additional small
craft for the work of their organisation; while Caltex Oil
(Aden) Limited are bringing a fourth oil terminal into
operation.
11. The port of Aden handles 1,000,000 tons of
shipping a month, and the continued expansion of its business
has led the Trustees of the Port to consider plans for
expansion in conjunction v/ith the Government of the Colony.
A scheme for a reclamation to provide sites for new wharves
and accommodation for coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. on the North side of the
harbour is now under consideration. It is designed to
relieve congestion on the South side of the harbour and to
provide improved facilities for ships and better housing for
the workers.
12. The Aden Protectorate presents a striking contrast
to the Colony of Aden. Whereas the Colony has a population
of over 80,000 concentrated within an area of 75 square miles,
the Protectorate has a population of about 600,000 spread over
an area of about 112,000 square miles. Aden itself has a normal
Colonial administration, but the Protectorate is not directly
administered by His Majesty’s Government, but is under the
rule of its own Treaty Chiefsj subject to general supervision
by the Governor of Aden through Political Officers*
13* The Aden Protectorate is divided into the Western
and Eastern Protectorates. The Western Protectorate falls
naturally into three topograpgical divisions: A coastal
belt, behind which are the maritime ranges rising to a height
of from 2,000 to 3*000 feet, and further back still is a
high plateau which in some parts reaches a height of 8,000
feet. The result of this variation in height is climatic
variation which mokes possible the cultivation of a wide
range of grains throughout the year. The Eastern Protectorate
comprises the Qu’aiti and Kathiri States of the Hadhramaut,
and is largely composed of.desert and barren ground intercepted
by fertile wadis or valleys, in which are important and well
constructed towns.
14* Until comparatively recent times the Protecting
Power intervened hardly at all in the affairs of the Protectorate,
with the result that large parts of it were in a very
backward and disturbed condition. The work of pacification
was eventually undertaken, and this has prepared the way for
a certain amount of economic development. The total sum
allotted jointly to the Colony of Aden and the Protectorate
from Colonial Development and Welfare Funds amounts to
£800,U00, of which the Aden Development Committee advised
that £500,000 should be allotted to the Protectorate. A
list of the schemes which they advised to be undertaken in
the Protectorate is attached. (Appendix II)• These
proposals have been approved with modifications in certain
cases.
15. One of the great difficulties which must be faced
before any attempt at development in the Protectorate on
a large scale can be successful, is that of transport. At
present there are no roads which would be so designated in
any up-to-date country. It will be seen that it is therefore
proposed to spend a sum of up to £100,000 for the construction
of roads.

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The file contains papers relating to the Working Party of the Middle East (Official) Committee. It mainly consists of Working Party papers received by the Commonwealth Relations Office, and a register of these papers with notes at the back of the file.

The file includes agendas for meetings of the Working Party. It also includes papers circulated to members of the Working Party for consideration at meetings, relating to the following subjects: economic and social development in the Middle East in general; the Iraq Central Development Board; the question of an International Bank Loan for Iraq; a visit to Bahrain in January/February 1949 by Matthew Thomas Audsley; the Persian [Iranian] Seven-Year Plan; employment of British experts in the Middle East; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic factors in Middle East development.

In addition, the file includes papers relating to economic and social development of the following places: Iraq; 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 ; Saudi Arabia; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania [Libya], Eritrea, and Somalia; the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; the Lebannon; Ethiopia; Sudan; and Yemen.

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1 file (320 folios)
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The papers are arranged in 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 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 320; 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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