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Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party' [292v] (584/642)
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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CONFIDENTIAL
Bagdad Telegram No. 373 to Foreign Office
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calculated to deprive Iraq of no less than
22 million pounds of revenue over the- next five years.
(This is Noonan's calculation). . How could he defend
that position before public opinion.
5. At this point he became evasive but the
remarks drew from him a re-statement of his attitude
on Haifa. This was briefly:-
(a) That if the port, including the refinery,
were internationalised pumping could-start within half
an hour. A free port would not do: that meant Jewish
sovereignty;
(b) Jews should show they really meant to
be friendly by agreeing either to the Assembly plan
or the Bernadotte plan and not try to
grab
Shallow vessel with a projecting bow.
the best
of both plans.
6. In case of (b), he said the pipe line could
be moved to Arab Acre. I said, what about the
refinery. He replied that he was not concerned with
it; he was concerned with getting crude away.
7. Absent-mindedly, perhaps, he ignores that
under the Bernadotte plan Acre would be no longer
Arab, whilst only under the Bernadotte plan v/as there
to be any special dispensation for Haifa and that
merely a free port.
8. I have discussed the above fully with Noonan
and Wheatley. Wheatley says that the rocky sea-floor,
rules Acre out anyway; otherwise, he added, the Iraqi
Petroleum Company would have sited their terminal
there in the beginning.
9. Wheatley thinks the frame of mind disclosed
by the Prime Minister in paragraph 6 gives him an
opening which he should make the most of, and he
proposes to sound the Prime Minister to see whether
he would be prepared to acquiesce in the feeding of
the refinery exclusively by crude from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
whilst Iraqi crude is devoted exclusively to export.
. ■
/10. Whilst this is not
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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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- Title
- Coll 54/2 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Working Party'
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- 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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