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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [160r] (319/642)
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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for raising royalty rates in Iran and Iraq, it is certain that
royalty receipts will rise very rapidly. Even if royalty
rates remained the same, Middle Bast governments would be
drawing £62,4 millions from the oil companies in 1956#
6, Oil and the Oil Companies have thus become dominating
factors in the political and economic lives of Persia, Iraq,
Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Sheikdoms and are of no mean
significance in the other Middle Bast States, In the further
expansion, on the scale at present envisaged, the main features
are thus likely to be:-
( 1 ) the increasing wealth which will accrue to the
Middle Eastern States and the use to which this will
be put;
(2) the stimulating influence which, by example and direct
effect, rapid development of the oilfields will have
upon the economic and social progress of the Middle
East countries;
(3) the economic interest of the United States with and,
to a lesser extent, the Western European and Commonwealth
countries, in Middle Bast oil developments;
(k) the growing awareness of the oil-producing Middle East
States of the position which this development of their
oil resources is creating for them in World affairs.
To fulfil this position adequately to guide the accompany
ing internal developments into profitable channels and
to maintain satisfactory relations with the oil
companies (for which there can be no substitutes at
this stage), are bound to impose a considerable strain
upon the present inadequate school of local statesmanship
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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.
- Extent and format
- 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.
- Physical characteristics
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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- Reference
- 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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- Open Government Licence