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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [‎174v] (348/642)

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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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(■b) The possibility of offering special facilities for
post-graduate training in the United Kingdom of Persians
particularly in public health duties, should be examined.
We should also try to secure, insofar as this may be possible,
that the vacancies for foreign experts are filled by British
subjects.
Discussion
The Treasury are concerned at the scale of Persian demands
under the Memorandum of Understanding, for the transfer of
dollars and other hard currencies to Persian account. Unless
British manufacturers can compete with price and delivery
dates with United States manufacturers, it is likely that the
greater part of the orders for goods required for the first
year of the Persian Seven Year Plan will be placed in the
United States. This would greatly increase Persia's
demands for dollars. It is therefore of the greatest
importance that the purchases recommended in this report
should be made in the sterling area. The engagement of a
high proportion of British experts to advise the Persian
Plan Organisation would have an important bearing on our
political and cultural relations with the Persians. This
is also desirable economically as the foreign advisers,
particularly in the consultative and civil engineering fields,
are likely to influence the Plan Organisation in its placing
for foreign contracts. Conversely Persians who are given
post-graduate training facilities in the United Kingdom are
likely, on return to Persia, to specify the- purchase of
United Kingdom equipment with which they are familiar and
on which they have been trained. It would therefore be greatly
in our interest to try to ensure that the Persians select
British advisers and that the Persians are given special
facilities for post-graduate training in this country.

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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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