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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [192r] (383/642)
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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- 3 -
otc• This is the type of aid that will resent least
difficulty to the TJ,K«, but even hero there are limits.
Obviously the extent to which such demands compete v/ith
the demands of our own Colonial Territories will have
to be kept constantly in mind. Where there is a
direct conflict of interests, the case for giving
precedence to a Middle Hast projects will have to be
a strong one,
(b) There will no doubt be some scope for material
assistance which takes the form of facilitating the
provision of scarce materials and equipment against
payment, but here again there will bo the competing
claims of other export markets and developments,
(c) The Report of the Investment Programmes Commi tee
estimates that there will be about 5100 millions net
available for overseas in 1932. The bulk of this,
if not all, will be required for investment in the
Colonies or the rest of the Sterling Area. But the
basis on which this figure is computed permits a wide
margin of error in which a sum of the order of (say) £20-
£25 million net would bo easily swallowed up. Such a
sum judiciously deployed may be of very great help to
the Middle East. At the same time it is clear that, whilst
the Working Party need not take a completely defeatist
attitude towards the possibility of U.K. help in this
direction, any case for a loan will again have to be
particularly strong. It must be remembered that such
assistance adds to the bur den of unrequited exports, as
does the more rapid running down of sterling balances;
materials and equipment provided against such monies are
not "paid for" in the sense intended in (b) above.
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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.
- 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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- 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