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Coll 17/10(3) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG' [187r] (373/513)
The record is made up of 1 file (256 folios). It was created in 29 Apr 1940-24 Oct 1941. 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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DEPARTHENTAL N O . 2 ,
Decypher* Sir B 0 Newton, (Bagdad).
12th December, 1940.
D. 10.20 p.nu 12th December, 1940^
R. 10.05 a.m, 13th December, 1940o
No. 764*
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IMPORTANT.
^ Your telegraiTi No. 631.
As a result of enquiries which I had set on foot before
the receipt of your telegram, I understand that on the advice
of the Minister for Foreign Affairs the Regent has been
withholding his assent to such a proposal*
Today I told the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the,
report which had reached you, and handed to him an aide memoire
asking to be informed as soon as possible when any such action
or decisions had in fact been taken or consideref.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs said that he knew both
Taha and Rashid Ali had for some time been considering
sympathetically petitions received from relations of the two
students who had been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for
the murder of His Majesty’s Consul, but that he had himself
always advised against recommending the Regent to grant a
pardon. Only a few days ago the Prime Minister had once more
spoken to him on the same subject, and he had again advised
that the sentences should be allowed to stand* He did not
know what further action the Prime Minister might have taken,
but he undertook that enquiries should be made,
I expressed my surprise at the Prime Minister's sympathy
with the idea of a pardon for these murderers, and told the
Minister for Foreign Affairs how, last spring, I had personally
shown Rashid Ali what my attitude tov/ards any such idea was
likely to be, by urging him to see that the police did not
relax their efforts to capture the fugitive who was believed
to have been His Majesty’s Consul’s principal assailant.
I added that any proposal made without consulting His Majesty’s
Government to release within 2 years the men who had been
condemned to 15 years imprisonment for the murder of a British
Consul, v/hose guilt had been legally established, and whose
youth alone had saved them from the gallows, would inevitably
be regarded by my Government as further evidence of the Prime
Minister’s entire inability to appreciate even the elementary
conditions of good relations with'His Majesty’s Government.
Repeated to Middle East Intelligence Centre No. 17.
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This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2861. It contains correspondence and memoranda regarding relations between HMG Her or His Majesty’s Government in London. and the Government of Iraq, and documents the reaction of 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. and Foreign Office to political developments within Iraq. The papers primarily consist of communications between HM Ambassador to Iraq and HM Foreign Secretary, regarding the cabinet of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, his resignation in January 1941 and the formation of a new cabinet under Taha al-Hashimi, and the resumption of power by Rashid Ali backed by the military in April 1941. The file concludes with papers detailing the escape of the Regent 'Abd al-Ilah, and initial negotiations with Rashid Ali's Government of National Defence.
The papers include detailed discussion of the relations between Iraq and the Axis Powers, and attempts by the British to persuade the Government of Iraq to sever diplomatic ties with Italy. They also discuss British concerns over the growing anti-British sentiment in Iraq, as a result of British interference in Iraqi internal affairs and British policy towards Palestine and Syria. Amongst the papers are intelligence reports on the 'Golden Square' Generals (folios 58-59), and a copy of British plans to undermine the Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (folios 194-195). The file also contains a small number of communications from the Government of Iraq, and from HM Ambassadors to Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the USSR.
Folios 4-8 concern the affairs of the family of the late Khan Sahib Badruddin Khan, and appear to have come from a different file.
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- 1 file (256 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 256; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 2-256, and ff 206-225; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Coll 17/10(3) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:28v, 30r:80r, 81r:95v, 97r:107v, 109r:137v, 139r:250v, 255r:256v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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