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File 4535/1928 Pt 10 ‘Persian Gulf: Anglo-Persian Negotiations 1928-30. Question of removal of Residency from Bushire.’ [186r] (369/460)
The record is made up of 1 item (228 folios). It was created in 16 Oct 1928-28 Nov 1929. 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 MAURICE UANKEY said that he desired to raise two questions of
procedure First, m order to avoid either overlapping or lacunae, it might be
advisable for Departments to send to the Secretary of the Committee the list of
authorities to whom they intended to circulate the memorandum in question. The
Sv^ond point was that the TV^ar Office, who were not represented on the Committee
ought perhaps to be consulted as to whether they would be prepared to circulate it
and, if so, to what authorities. He added that the AVar Office had received copies of
all the papers and minutes of the Committee.
LORD HAILSHAM endorsed Sir Maurice Hankey’s proposals and suggested
that the Secretary should, on behalf of the Committee, get in touch with the War
Office on the points at issue.
Turning to the second proposal of the Chief of the Air Staff, namely, the question
of simplifying and speeding up the machinery for political control in Arabia, Lord
Hailsham said that he agreed with Sir Samuel Hoare that an Interdepartmental
Sub-Committee should be set up. He thought that the Sub-Committee should be
instructed to confine themselves in the first place to devising means by which the
existing machinery could be speeded up.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN agreed, but was inclined to think that the
Committee might, with advantage, be instructed to go further, and to consider the
possibilities of changes in the present system. It was true that questions of policy
were involved in such an examination, but there would be no harm in having the
Committee’s recommendations. He added that the Masterton-Smith Committee had
gone into questions of policy.
LORD PEEL did not wish to offer any objections to the proposal for an
Interdepartmental Sub-Committee, but he thought that they should only be asked to
consider ways and means of speeding up present arrangements. Apart from any
other reason, more rapid results were to be anticipated if their terms of reference
were thus prescribed.
Conclusions.
After some further discussion it was agreed—
(a.) To approve in principle the Notes by the Air Staff on the regulation of air
control in undeveloped countries (Appendix to P.G. Minutes,
bth Meeting), subject to—
(i) the deletion of the following passage in paragraph 4 :—
“ or in cases where reference to higher authority is not required ;
(ii.) such corrections in points of detail as might be agreed to as the
result of detailed examination of the notes by the Departments
concerned.
(b.)
(o.)
(d.)
That with regard to (cl) (ii) above, any detailed amendments that are desired
should be communicated to the Secretary not later than Thursday, the
28th March. (If no amendments are received by that date the concurrence
of Departments will be assumed.) . .
That the Air Staff note referred to in (a) above should be circulated tor
information by the Departments concerned to all administrators and
political officers concerned with this problem. - i i i
That in order to avoid overlapping or lacunae, Departments shou c
communicate to the Secretary of the Committee the list of officials to
whom they propose to forward the paper in question.
(e) That the Secretary should, on behalf of the Committee, ascertain f r . on k ®
Secretary of State for War whether he wishes to circulate the Air Stall
note, and, if so, to what authorities. a
That a Sub-Committee of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Committee, composed as
follows :—
Chairman, a Treasury Official (to be nominated by Sir Warren
Fisher); Members : representatives of the Foreign Office, Colonial Office
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.
, Admiralty, Air Ministry, and also War Office (if desired b>
the Secretary of State for War); Secretary, Colonel Ismay;
should be set up with the following terms o± reference .
“ To make recommendations as to the methods by which the existing
machinery for political control in Arabia could be simplified and
speeded up.”
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This part contains papers relating to the question of whether the British Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire should be removed from Persian [Iranian] territory, and whether the functions of 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. should be separated from those of the Consul-General at Bushire. These questions were under discussion by 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 includes papers concerning the following issues: the view of the former 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. Sir Frederick William Johnston, and HM Minister at Tehran, that conditions at Bushire were unsatisfactory and that the Persian Government would create difficulties for the Resident if the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. remained at Bushire; the possibility of the removal of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. serving as a useful bargaining counter for the British Government in the treaty negotiations which were taking place with the Persian Government; the possibility of 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. being transferred to Basra, Karachi, Bahrein [Bahrain] or Koweit [Kuwait]; and objections of the Government of India to the removal of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. from Bushire. 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. Political Department minute papers, internal 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. correspondence, and the following documents:
- A memorandum by the Secretary of State for India entitled ‘Question of separation of functions of 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. and those of the Consul-General, Bushire, and of the removal of the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. from Persian soil’, dated 7 December 1928
- Draft minutes of the meeting on 15 May 1929 of the Sub-Committee on Political Control of 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
- Draft minutes of the meeting of 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 of 18 March 1929.
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. ; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; 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, Tehran; the Colonial Office; and the Foreign Office.
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