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Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’ [7r] (13/178)
The record is made up of 1 file (89 folios). It was created in 12 Jan 1932-18 Sep 1935. 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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quoted a despatch of May 5th, 1932, from Sir Francis
Humphrys, which gave the reasons why it had then "been
impossible to secure any control over the choice of
the alignment. Sir Francis Humphrys had, however,
at that time suggested the possibility of an agreement
between the B.O.D. and the I.P.C. for the transport of
the former’s oil over the latter’s pipeline.
SIR FRANCIS HUMPHRYS thought that the fact that
neither His Majesty’s Government nor the I.P.C. would
finance Mosul Oilfields Ltd., did not preclude that
Company from negotiating for the use of the I.P.C. pipe
line. He pointed out that the proposed alignment from
Mosul to Alexandretta would lie close to the Syro-
Turkish frontier, which was a potential battle-field.
The Turks made no secret of their aspirations to regain
Aleppo and northern Syria, which he regarded as not improbable
some day, either as the result of war or even by peaceful
methods, as there was a large Turkish population in this
area. The French might well prefer that the pipeline
should go direct to Tripoli, which, although longer, was
a safer route than via Aleppo to Alexandretta.
THE CHAIRMAN remarked that there appeared to be some
divergence of view as to the extent of the danger of
Turkish expansion in this area. He did not wish to
question Sir Francis Humphrys’ views, but there were other
authorities, such as H.M. Ambassador in Turkey, who did
not consider it at all probable that Turkey would seek to
expand to the south of her present frontiers. It was
possible that the French might not regard this danger as
a very real one. It would certainly be extremely
difficult, if not impossible, for His Majesty’s Government
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The file contains papers relating to the oil concessions and operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the British Oil Development Company in Iraq.
It includes:
- Papers concerning payments due to the Government of Iraq from these companies.
- Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, dated 1933, concerning the British Oil Development Company’s proposed pipeline from its concession near Mosul to the Mediterranean.
- Papers regarding the official opening of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline connecting the oil-field at Kirkuk with the Mediterranean port of Haifa, on 14 January 1935.
The papers include 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. minute papers, correspondence, and three newspaper cuttings from The Times . The correspondence is largely between Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, HM Ambassador to Iraq (HM Representative, Baghdad), and Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Other correspondents include: the 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. ; the High Commissioner of Iraq; the Colonial Office; Sir John Cadman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Iraq Petroleum Company; and the [British Government] Petroleum Department (Mines Department).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (89 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 89; 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/12/2882
- Title
- Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:30v, 32r:37v, 44r:54v, 56r:64v, 66r:76v, 80r:82v, 84r:88v, 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