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Coll 17/10(3) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG' [214r] (427/513)
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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Decypher. Sir B. Newton (Bagdad)
25rd November, 1940.
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10.20 p.m. 24th November, 1940.
12.55 p.m. 24th November, 1940.
No. 702.
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IMPORTANT.
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Your telegrams No.595 and No.591.
Secret.
I am taking the earliest opnortunity to act on your
instructions.
2. Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has himself told me that he had asked
the Italian Minister if he would give him the official text of
the German broadcast declaration (which was also sent from
Bari) and it would seem natural that he should at the same
time ask what practical apolication it had to Syria and
Palestine. His underlying suggestion to me was that the
declaration so far appeared to be literally only in the air.
and that, in any case, the result cf his enquiry would help to
expose its worthlessness. I am not, however, satisfied that
this reveals the whole truth and think it probable that
the Iraqi hope has been to use it to extract more precise
advances firstly from the Axis and then perhaps from ourselves.
5. Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
* s quite recent mention of his failure to
obtain any v/ritten text implies that Naji Shaukat had kept
secret from him the text given by von Papen. It might
therefore be of value (provided there is no strong objection
and the information is thoroughly reliable) if I could tell
the Regent and Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
what we know [ group undecypherable ? of ]
I.aji’s [? group omitted ? conversation] witn von rapen at
Angora. Such information might be useful to them in [? group
omitted? procuring a change of Government.
4. The story in my telegram No.fiSS- reached me from
more than one source. To meet the possibllit * that the whole
matter has been kept secret from both the Regent and Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
I propose in any case to suggest to the Regent that he
should satisfy himself by direct enquiry of the Prime Minister
and perhaps Taha or other important Tiembers of the Cabinet
that" no such information has in fact been withheld from his
knowledge and that of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and
that there is no danger of serious action being taken of
which they would disapprove.
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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'
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- 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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