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Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’ [17r] (34/93)
The record is made up of 1 file (44 folios). It was created in 28 Oct 1947-7 Apr 1949. 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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E.601/48
External Secretary*
I agree with your note. I should have thought that,
through our Exchange Control, we could regulate or prohibit the use
by the Sheikhdoms of sterling area dollars for the purchase of
sugar. It may be, as the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
says, they can take
L action to prevent unrestricted imports of sugar from the
sterling area, but the amounts available outside of the U.K.
must be quite small. If there were an abundance of sugar in the
sterling area India would not have to use dollars to replenish
her stock (c.f. para 2 of Miss Loughnane’s letter of the 19th
December, and para 3 of Forster’s letter of the 23rd December).
I appreciate the advantages mentioned by the Ministry of Food in
our supplying the sugar rather than allowing the Sheikhdoms to
dollar countries, but that need not mean that we should
sescto them without limit.
Whatever we do they will still be able, if they want to,
to buy sugar with black market dollars, which I believe they
manage to acquire in fair quantity.
I think there is a case for asking the Ministry of Food
whether they have taken full account of the effect of Exchange
Control. Until we are satisfied about this we aught not to
reply to the
Political Resident
A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency.
.
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The file is concerned with replacing sugar previously obtained by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ) from India with sugar supplied from the United Kingdom; sugar production in India and Pakistan had fallen following the end of the Second World War (1939-1945).
The main correspondents are: the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. (William Rupert Hay), officials of the Commonwealth Relations Office (Eion Pelly Donaldson, Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison, and R I Hallows), officials of the Ministry of Food (B A Forester), and officials of the Treasury (H A G Gill).
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 (44 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The subject Ext 329/43 (Supply of Food to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ) consists of three files: IOR/L/PS/12/786-788.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 46; 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/787
- Title
- Ext 329/43(1) ‘SUPPLY OF SUGAR TO PERSIAN GULF STATES’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 1ar, 2r:37v, 39r:45v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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