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File 4535/1928 Pt 5 ‘PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL CONTROL IN:-’ [255r] (512/767)
The record is made up of 1 file (380 folios). It was created in 16 Jun 1926-20 Oct 1937. 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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SIR GEORGE MILNE said that the only difficulty was the financial one, as the
transport would cost money.
SIR JOHN CHANCELLOR pointed out that at present lorries had to be hired
by the military at considerable expense.
® SIR GEORGE MILNE agreed that it would probably be dheaper to provide
military transport than to continue hiring, but he would have to go into the question
of what transport vehicles would actually be required, and as to what Uepartmen
was to bear the cost.
Mr. SHAW emphasised that the War Office wished to avoid an extra charge
being made on the Army estimates for this transport, and he understood that the
Colonial Office were examining the question of Palestine bearing the extra expense
incurred through military units being located in Palestine instead of at their normal
station.
LORD PASSFIELD said that the question had not vet been settled, but it was
generally accepted that so long as Palestine was in a position to do so, it should pay
the extra cost. He understood that at the present time the cost of hired transport
was being incurred by the military, and the suggestion was that an R.A.b.L. unit
would be less expensive.
THE PRIME MINISTER suggested that the Committee should accept
recommendation 13 (c) on the understanding that it would involve no extra cost to
the Exchequer, and that the Departments concerned should go into the question and
report to the Cabinet if their investigations showed this was necessary.
He then turned to the second part of the Report dealing with the question ot
control pointing out that the respective views of the War Office and Air Ministry
were given in paragraphs 16 and 17, and that the arguments appeared to be on the
whole fairly evenly balanced.
FORD THOMSON said that his view T was that in Palestine there were two
distinct functions to be considered. One was the responsibility for internal security
in Palestine and the other was the question of the external defence of both Irai s-
jordan and Palestine. It was admitted that at the present time two battalions were
required in Palestine for internal security in order to reinforce the inadequate
nolice It was, however, difficult to describe the functions of these battalions as
military and he noticed in the Defence Scheme that, according to the distribution of
the Infantry during the Precautionary Stage, there would never be more than two
Comnanies in one place. The only real military danger to Palestine lay m possible
incursions by Arabs from without, and infiltration across the Trans-Jordan Frontier
into Palestine In his opinion the most effective method of dealing with this danger
was the present one, namely, bv means of aircraft, supported by armoured cars and
local levies under the Air Officer Commanding.
Mr SHAW said that while he did not feel qualified to deal with purely
technical considerations, as a layman, he could not appreciate the rigid distinction
between the Royal Air Force and military duties laid down by the Secretary of State
for Air. He could not see that it was more a military function to keep out raiders
who imcht upset the whole system of law and order than to suppress disturbances
^me™at the same purpose but initiated from within. The fact was that in Palestine
tTuble had in the past developed, as might well happen in the future, m such a way
as to make it essential to have armed military forces in the country because it was
outside the competence of the Royal Air Force to keep order with their own means.
This was proved last year and. as a result, there was now in Palestine a military
force far superior in numbers to the units of the Royal Air Force and with far
treater responsibility as regards law and order. It seemed to him that the suggestion
If tht nigh Commissioner that the security of Palestine must rest on the military
arm was thoroughly sound.
THE PRIME MINISTER said that he gathered from Sir John Chancellors
reports that the command in Palestine should be vested in a military officer.
SIR JOHN CHANCELLOR replied in the affirmative, adding that, personally,
he would describe the situation as regards internal disorder in rather different words
from those Tsed b Y the Secretary of State for Air. There were two distinct
problems to be considered in Palestine and Trans-Jordan respectively. The latter
las a desert country where the Royal Air Force had done extraordinarily good work
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The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to political control in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Middle East, specifically the division of responsibility for this region between 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 Government of India, the Foreign Office, and the Colonial Office.
It includes papers relating to the following recommendations of Sir Hugh Trenchard, Chief of the Air Staff, made in an Air Staff Memorandum dated 8 May 1928: that the responsibilities of the Colonial Office should be extended to include Koweit [Kuwait], the Trucial Chiefs, and all political questions concerning the countries contiguous with Arabia; that one department of the Government, with the Air Ministry as advisers on air matters, should be made responsible for political and administrative action in Arabia, or at least in Iraq, Aden and Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ; and that 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 Government of India should consider relieving themselves of their direct political and administrative responsibilities connected with Arabia. The related papers include those relating to the counter-proposal of the Government of India that a degree of the control removed from them following the report of the Masterton-Smith Committee of 1921 should be restored, and that they should now resume the position in the Gulf that they held before the First World War with regard to Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait, Muscat and the Trucial Chiefs.
The file also includes papers concerning the following:
- The proposals of Sir John Cadman (Chairman of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Iraq Petroleum Company) in a letter to the Prime Minister of August 1929 that control of the Middle East should be centralised under a single department of HM Government
- Lord Trenchard’s motion in the House of Lords of 20 May 1931 to ask whether HM Government would make a statement concerning an enquiry into the unification of control and policy in the Middle East
- Lord Lamington’s motion of 27 April 1932 to ask HM Government whether the desirability of having the affairs of the Arabic speaking peoples of Arabia, Egypt and the Sudan being dealt with by one Government Office had been considered
- Lord Lloyd’s motion of 21 March 1935 to call attention to the economic and political situation in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The main correspondents are as follows: 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. ; Hastings Lionel Ismay, Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the Foreign Office; and the Colonial Office. Other correspondents include: the Air Ministry; the Admiralty Military Branch; 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. ; Lord Trenchard; and John Cadman.
Other papers in the file include 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. internal 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. Political Department minute papers, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, extracts from minutes of the House of Lords, and the following:
- Notes by 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. for the Sub-Committee on Political Control of the Committee of Imperial Defence Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Sub-Committee, entitled ‘De Facto Position as Regards Political Arrangements in the Persian Gulf’ and ‘Distribution of (British) Administrative Responsibility in the Persian Gulf’
- Draft minutes of the 249th meeting of the Committee of Imperial Defence on 14 July 1930
- Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East.
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (380 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
The subject 4535 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Persia: telegraphs) consists of nine files (seven volumes and two physical files), IOR/L/PS/10/1266-1274. The files are divided into seventeen parts, with parts 1 and 3 comprising one volume, part 2 comprising the second volume, part 5 comprising the third file, part 7 comprising the third and fourth volumes, parts 8 and 11 comprising the fifth volume, parts 13 to 15 comprising the sixth volume, part 16 comprising the seventh file, and parts 10 and 17 comprising the eighth volume.
A location list on folio 5 of IOR/L/PS/10/1271 and IOR/L/PS/10/1272 states that part 4 is Coll 30/75 (IOR/L/PS/12/3792), part 6 is Coll 29/68 (IOR/L/PS/12/3644), part 9 is Coll 30/17 (IOR/L/PS/12/3727), and part 12 is P 4480/1923 Pt 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/1099).
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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 381; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 4535/1928 Pt 5 ‘PERSIAN GULF POLITICAL CONTROL IN:-’
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- front, front-i, 2r:11v, 12v:46v, 47v:65v, 66v:67v, 68v:105v, 107r:107v, 108v, 109v, 110ar, 110v, 111ar, 111v:117v, 118ar, 118v, 119v, 120v:121v, 136v:161v, 162v:177v, 178v:282v, 289r:368v, 369v, back
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