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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [117r] (233/642)
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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Apart from the Military and.Civil Air Mission, British
technical advice to Saudi Arabia is confined to the medical field
(see Annex P(i) and (ii)) and there is at present no requirement
for .advisers in other fields. There are no British school teachers
ur technicians employed by the Saudi Arabian Groverrment.
T erms of Se r vice .
The salaries offered to the British experts are considered by
His Majesty’s Embassy to be adequate. The main deterrent to
candidates is, however, the almost complete lack of suitable
accommodation. Under the draft contract forms for the new posts,
which the Grovernment has not yet approved, the Government is bound
to provide free accommodation*
N on-Briti s h expert s
There are few non-British experts other than Arabs in Saudi
Arabia (see Annex P(iii)), As far as His Majesty's Embassy have
been able to ascertain, no foreign governments subsidize their
nationals employed by the Saudi Arabian Government.
D esirable Appointments
His Majesty's Embassy has stated that "there is scarcely any
field of human activity in which Saudi Arabia would not be
immeasurably the better for the advice of foreign experts provided
that the Saudi Arabian Government..... would follow their advice,”
It is considered that education is the key to all progress in the
country. The Embassy therefore recomnends that:
x
(a) The Saudi Arabian Government should be advised to
employ more and better schoolmasters of otner Arab
nationalities.
(b) That in other fields we should not urge them to
appoint experts until they are prepared to guarantee
to the experts executive as well as technical and
advisory powers, and to give them, within reason,
c arte blanch e as regards the use of funds allotted
and procurement. There is no sign at present that
the Government would be willing to do this.
x
/(c)
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- IOR/L/PS/12/4758
- Title
- Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:289v, 291r:320v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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