File 4535/1928 Pt 8 ‘ – PERSIAN GULF – QUESTION OF ESTABLISHMENT OF PROTECTORATES OVER KOWEIT, BAHREIN, MUSCAT, TRUCIAL COAST.’ [23v] (40/194)
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received) coincides with a memorandum by Mr, Amery on the
question of converting our existing agreements with the
Trucial Chiefs and the Sheikh t of /feitr into regular
Protectorate Treaties. The Colonial Office note
circulated by the Secretary of State for the Colonies
agrees with the view taken by the Government of India
that the further commitments involved in the conclusion
of regular Protectorate Treaties are not desirable, but
Mr. Amery himself, while alive to the force of the
objections to such consolidation of our position,
suggests that the Sub-Committee should take an early
opportunity of discussing whether those objections
must not give way to the wider considerations of
policy that require us to consolidate our position in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
as a whole.
To revert to consideration of Sir Lionel
Haworth’s proposals. In the first place, as regards
Muscat, it is no doubt the case that the State is entirely
kept going by our presence in the background, and that
were we not there, the fanatical tribes in the interior
or powerful vassals such as the Amir£ of Jaalan, who ^
now causing trouble at Sur, would partition the
country between them. It is also possibly the case
that we are now offered a sort of opportunity to
regularise our position in Muscat by the conclusion of a,
formal Treaty of Protection, and that so favourable an
opportunity may not recur in the near future. For all
that, the objections to action on the lines suggested by
Sir Lionel Haworth seem to me to be overwhelming. To
leave out of the question the League of Nations, and
the possible reactions on our position of what would
inevitably be represented as Imperialism of the worst
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This part contains papers relating to the question of whether Koweit [Kuwait], Bahrein [Bahrain], Muscat, and the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. Sheikdoms should become formal British protectorates, including the views on this question of the following: the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; HM Minister at Tehran (Sir Robert Clive); the Government of India; the Colonial 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 Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Sub-Committee of the Committee of Imperial Defence.
This part also includes papers relating to the question of the terms of a draft article for inclusion in a treaty with Persia [Iran] regarding the status of Bahrain.
The papers include correspondence, 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. memoranda, 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. Political Department minute papers, and Committee of Imperial Defence Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Sub-Committee papers.
The main correspondents are 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. , the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth).
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