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Coll 17/20(1) 'Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930. Revision of Treaty 1948' [109r] (217/304)
The record is made up of 1 file (149 folios). It was created in 20 Jan 1933-3 Feb 1948. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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103
THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
EASTERN (Iraq).
September 19, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
5521/1/93] No. 1.
Sir F. Humphrys to Sir John Simon.—(Received September 19.)
(No. 595.)
Sir, Bagdad, September 14, 1933.
WITH reference to my telegram No. 337 of the 8th September, I have the
honour to report that I first received news of King Feisal’s death early on the
morning of the 8th September through a telephone message from the palace. I
immediately called on the Prime Minister and expressed to his Excellency the
condolences of His Majesty’s Government and my own personal sorrow for the
death of King Feisal, and my sympathy with Iraq at the tragic loss which she
had suffered by this melancholy event. His Excellency thanked me for my words
and was good enough to say that the knowledge of the sympathy and support of
His Majesty’s Government was a great source of comfort to him and his colleagues
in their grief and bereavement. He then asked Yasin
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to join us, and they
discussed with me briefly the action which was necessary in view of the King’s
death. I advised swift compliance with the provisions of the Organic Law. They
agreed and said that arrangements would be made for proclaiming the accession
of the Amir Ghazi before the general public were aware of King Feisal’s death.
They also consulted me about the position of the Cabinet. I said that under their
Constitution the Cabinet should resign, and I hoped that they would he
reappointed by the new King immediately, without change, as in times of excite
ment it was important to preserve continuity. The Ministers also sought m}
advice on several small protocolaire questions, and before I took my leave both of
them offered me the most solemn, and, I believe, sincere assurances that the
Government were resolved, as a duty to the memory of the late King, to maintain
the closest and most friendly relations with Great Britain, and to seek the advice
and assistance of His Majesty’s representatives on all important matters
concerning the future of Iraq and the mutual interests of the two countries.
2. At 10 o’clock on the same morning, in the presence of the Cabinet, the
President of the Chamber of Deputies, the Vice-President of the Senate and
senior officials of the Government, His Royal Highness the Amir Ghazi took the
oath to defend the Constitution laid down in article 21 of the Organic Law, and
he was thereupon proclaimed King, as “Ghazi I.” The public were informed
of his accession by the firing of a salute of 101 guns. Three minutes later the new
King drove in procession to the palace and received the homage of the Royal
Family, the Cabinet, former Ministers, high military and civil officials, religious
dignitaries and notables of the city. At 2 p.m. His Majesty received the heads of
diplomatic missions separately in audience. I said that my Sovereign and His
Majesty’s Government would be deeply grieved by this tragic loss, and when I
spoke of my own personal bereavement the young King broke down and was
unable to reply. The same evening the Prime Minister placed the resignation
of the Cabinet in His Majesty’s hands.
3. On the following morning King Ghazi invited me to see him privately,
and I spent an hour with him discussing the immediate necessities of the
situation. He spoke feelingly of the great help which his father had always
enjoyed from His Majesty’s Government, and declared his intention of following
his father’s policy of friendship and close co-operation wdth Great Britain. He
hoped that I would always extend to him the same degree of confidence and
personal counsel as I had given to the late King.
4. A few hours later His Majesty issued a Royal Iradah reappointing all
the members of the Cabinet to their old posts. At the customary semi-public
ceremony which takes place on such occasions, the Prime Minister made a speech
in which he stated that the policy which would be followed in the future would
be the same as that to which King Feisal had always adhered in the past, a policy
of close friendship and alliance with Great Britain. On Monday, the
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The file contains papers relating to the Treaty of Alliance (Anglo-Iraqi Treaty) of 1930 between the United Kingdom and Iraq, and the revised Treaty of Alliance of 1948.
Papers dated January 1933 to December 1934 mostly concern the following: the attitude and policy of King Feisal and the Iraqi Cabinet towards the Treaty of 1930; complaints by George Arthur Ogilvie-Forbes, HM Representative, Baghdad, on behalf of the British Government, to the Government of Iraq about the hostile attitude of the Iraqi press towards the 1930 Treaty and the United Kingdom; the death of King Feisal [Faysal I] and the attitude of the new King, King Ghazi [Ghazi I]; and the desire of the Iraqi Government to publish certain explanatory notes on the Treaty of 1930.
Papers dated from March 1946 to February 1948 relate to the revision of the Treaty of 1930, and the signing of the new Treaty of Alliance of 1948. They include papers concerning the political consequences of the signing of the Treaty, including ‘rioting’ in Baghdad and the resignation of the Iraqi Prime Minister Saleh Jabr [Salih Jabr].
The file does not include any papers for the period January 1935 to February 1946.
The papers dated 1933 to 1934 largely consist of copy correspondence between Sir Francis Humphreys, HM Ambassador to Iraq, and the Foreign Office (including letters addressed to Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). The papers dated 1946 to 1948 largely consist of correspondence and copy correspondence between the following: HM Embassy, Baghdad, and the Foreign Office; 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 the Board of Trade; the Commonwealth Relations Office and the governments of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Newfoundland, and Southern Rhodesia; and Saiyid Saleh Jabr, Prime Minister of Iraq, and Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary.
The file also includes a copy of the Draft Anglo-Iraqi Treaty dated 9 January 1948, and a published copy of the Treaty of Alliance between the United Kingdom and Iraq, dated 15 January 1948.
The file includes a letter in Arabic from Mohamed Fadhil Al Jamali, Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, to Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, HM Ambassador to Iraq, 2 August 1946 (folio 74), for which there is an English translation.
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.
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- 1 file (149 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 152; these numbers are written in pencil 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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- front, front-i, 2r:10v, 16r:25v, 26v, 27v, 29v, 48v, 49v, 50v:73v, 75r:100v, 103r:112v, 114r:116r, 117v:134r, 135r:136v, 138v:151v, back-i, back
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