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Coll 17/20(1) 'Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1930. Revision of Treaty 1948' [‎113r] (225/304)

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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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ENCLOSURE iN orrir.^
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EASTERN (Iraq).
August 18, 1933.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 3.
[E 4782/685/93]
No. 1.
Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes to Sir John Simon.—(Received August 18.)
(No. 524.)
Sir,
Bagdad, August 14, 1933.
WITH reference to my telegram No. 232, reporting the suspension of the
newspaper, the A kali, I have the honour to transmit to you herewith a copy of a
note from the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs in reply to the two notes (copies
3'^ 9/ of which were forwarded to you in my despatch No. 496 o f the 3rd August) which
I recently addressed to the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs in protest against
the hostile attitude adopted by the Iraqi press in general and the Ahali in
particular.
2. I also enclose a translation of extracts^) from the Ahali of the 6th and
7th August, from which you will observe that the newspaper was not deterred
from continuing its attacks on British policy by the warning from the Press
Bureau, which it was obliged to publish in the number of the 6th August. The
journal was consequently suspended on the 8th August for a period of ten days.
3. The suspension of the Istiqlal, to which the Ministry refer in their note,
was provoked by its embarking upon Sunni-Shiah controversy (see my despatch
No. 503 of the 3rd August) and had no connexion with its offensively anti-British
attitude.
4. With the exception of the now suspended Ahali, there has been a
notable absence of hostile articles in the Arabic press for the past few days. The
Iraqi Government are doubtless encouraged to put an end to these attacks on
Great Britain by their desire to secure the diplomatic assistance of His Majesty’s
Government at Geneva in the event of the Assyrian question coming before the
Council of the League of Nations, and it is significant that the Ikha-al-Watani,
the semi-official organ of the present Government, expresses in its number of the
8th August the hope that Iraq will be able to rely upon support from her ££ great
ally ” in denouncing the conduct of the French authorities in Syria in allowing
the emigrant Assyrians to return to Iraq with their arms.
5. The campaign of abuse and allegation has now been transferred to the
French Government, who are vociferously denounced in all the Arabic newspapers
as the cause of the recent bloodshed.
I have, &c.
G. OGILVIE-FORBES.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs to British Embassy, Bagdad.
THE Ministry for Foreign Affairs present their compliments to His
Britannic Majesty’s Embassy, Bagdad, and, with reference to the two letters
addressed to his Excellency the Prime Minister by the Charge d’Affaires of
His Britannic Majesty’s Embassy, of which one dealt with a leading article
published in the A hali newspaper and the other with the tone of the Bagdad press
as a whole, have the honour to inform the Embassy that immediately upon the
receipt of the two above-mentioned letters of the Embassy, his Excellency the
Prime Minister instructed the competent authorities to take the necessary steps
with a view to the local press avoiding the publication of any matter of a
nature inconsistent with the spirit of accord and sincere amity characterising
Anglo-Iraqi relations. The competent authorities carried out the instructions
given them, exercising the maximum powers vested in them by law, and warned
[879 s—31
P) Not printed.

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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)
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The papers are arranged in 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 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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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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