Coll 29/45(3) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf (Policy and Superior staff)' [‎264r] (527/669)

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POHEION OFFICE, S.W.l
21st May 1947
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Dear Donaldson,
• Many t hanks
2. We are anxious to push ahead as quickly as possible v;ith
our plans for taking over the posts in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and in South
and East Persia. We are very much handicapped by our almost
complete lack of knowledge of the establishment and organisation
side of these posts about which we only know what you have kindly
told us. In order to make plans for administering them as Foreign
Service posts, v/e need a certain amount of information which we
think can only be supplied by those on the spot.
3 . I have drawn up a short memorandum which v/e should now
like to be sent as soon as possible to those posts we shall be
taking over: i.e. Meshed, Khorramshahr, Bushifre (which as you
know will become a Vice Consulate under the Foreign Office regime;,
and the Agencies at Kuwait, Bahrein and Muscat. It may be tnat
you would prefer to send the memorandum with enclosures to Hay m
the first instance for those posts I^have mentioned except Meshed,
since 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. controls the Officer and Ministerial
staff manning all the others. , a . '
' 4. In regard to the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bahrein itself the
establishment is of course a larger and more complicated proolem
if only because the control of the quarantine organisation is
carried'out from there. It would help us very much if Hay
could give us the outline of the establishment there (in a^caaru
form, if possible, as for the other places; and also the other
particulars in respect of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. for which the memorandum
asks. But we should appreciate additional infomaulon ±rom - 1
on matters common to the other posts as f 611 ; e.g. some idea oi
how the various Ministerial officers rank in mieir o^/n heiira
For instance I see in Hay’s letter i?0429/3 ofth ® 7
you he describes three different categories of officersjlndiar
Political Service Officers, Ministerial Gazetoed Of-iceis „ cadre
Ministerial staff. We have quite a clear idea 01 t . * *
since recruitment for it has been conducted for many years xrom
this country, but we are in the dark about the otaer two
categories. For instance are the Ministerial stafi. an
Ministerial Gazetted Officers divided into grades? .'/hat sort
of people are they and how are they recruited? vVhat are oaeir
prospects of promotion and at what age are they recruit d.
they divided into grades and if so what sort oi 300 is uo y
each grade and what is the salary, the incremental scale
Gan v/e be given a rough idea of the ages ox the ^iJ-fer
in their categories? _ Presumably the Ministerial Gazetted
Officers are comparable to Warrant Officers or i..C.
Services, but we do not know. Gan Hay give us some idea of trie
different kinds of duties of the categories, and, of the
categories of staff, what proportion would one ^pect to find in
any ^iven set-up? Hay has given us the extracts Ox xinanciai
terms of service in his letter under reference which was
forwarded under cover of your letter 570/47 of the 20th March,
what/
E.P. Donaldson, Esq., C.M.G. ,
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. .