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Coll 17/10(3) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG' [‎209r] (417/513)

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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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DISTRIBUTION B
From: IRAQ
Decypher. Sir B. Newton (Bagdad)
26th November, 194-0,
• R. 4-. 30 a.m,
D. 10.30 p.m,
26thNovember, 194-0.
28th November, 1940
No. 714,
My telegram No. 709
After my audience with Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Regent sent first for
Minister for Communications, Minister for Defence, and then for
Prime Minister, all of whom denied any knowledge of the resumption
of telegraphic communications with Germany and Italy 0 Despite
the preference which he had expressed for using some internal
grounds for getting rid of the Prime Minister, the Regent deferred
any decisive step until the Prime Minister had had opportunity of
seeing me, which he did at the Embassy this morning.
2. At considerable length the Prime Minister explained to
me that his policy was one of sincere collaboration with His
Majesty’s Government, repeated above denial saying that he would be
prepared after investigation, to revoke Post Office decision, and
assured me that there was no question of a resumption of diplomatic
relations with Germany, nor any truth in the story associated with
Naji Shaukat.
3, I dealt with these three matters in reverse order. I
told him of communication which I had made to the Regent in
accordance with your telegram No. 393, and as there seemed to be
(hV f *) some con ^ us i° n i n bis mind, made it clear that this communication was
quite separate from the S'tory of the proposals said to have been
quoted by Naji Shaukat from Istanbul. I explained that I had
felt it would be unwise to disregard this story as being merely
malicious, seeing that it had reached me from three different
sources, that first proposal had in fact been realised, and that
as a result of information obtained in London I had subsequently
been instructed to convey an official warning in regard to the third
proposal.
4-. In reply to his denial of any knowledge of resumption of
telegraphic communications, I observed that information of such an
intention had reached me two or three days before the announcement
and that I had then hoped it would prove to be merely a malicious
story. A full announce lent had however appeared in the press
October/

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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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