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FO 371/140238

Welfare of citizens of Qatar resident in UK. Code BA file 1633, 1959

This file contains correspondence relating to Qataris in the UK and the increasing difficulty in dealing with their welfare (1).

FO 371/140225

Operation of Iraq Petroleum Company in Trucial States. Code BA file 1532, 1959

This file relates to correspondence on Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) in the Trucial States to include a meeting with Mr Bird of IPC and on the Saudi Arabian reaction to IPC operations in the Trucial States (1).

FO 371/140089

Alleged communism in Kuwait. Code BA file 10113, 1959

This file contains correspondence relating to: Arrest of a communist group in the Hawali [Hawalli] district of Kuwait (2) Report of alleged communists in Kuwait. The Deputy Ruler is vague on the question of the 70 arrests (3)

FO 371/132752

Radio interview with Salah Jalal on the Trucial States, 1958

This file contains the transcript of a radio broadcast in French on passages of a talk by Ossand Afana on 'French Puppets in the Cameroons' interview with Saleh Jalal on the Trucial Oman (1).

FO 371/132562

Placing of a plaque by RN on island of Nabiyu Tunb (Ras al Khaimah), 1958

This file contains correspondence on Nabiyu Tunb Island, including a report by the Commanding Officer of HMS Loch Ruthven concerning the erection of a plaque on the island unveiled by the father and Representative of the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Mohammad Bin Salem Al Qasimi (1).

FO 371/132554

Press interview with Ruler of Sharjah, 1958

This file contains an interview the Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi gave to Al Ahram during his visit to Cairo in September 1958. The interview covered relations between Sharjah and the United Arab Republic, trade, oil, relations with the UK and the possibility of a union and domestic policies (2).

FO 371/126993

Anti-western and pro-Soviet Union propaganda in Doha, 1957

This file contains an extract of a letter received from D C Carden at Doha showing the extent to which propaganda hostile to British interests has penetrated the Arab mind (1).

FO 371/126968

Electricity supplies in Bahrain and Qatar, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to: Equipment required for the Qatar Power Station and a request for assistance to persuade Messrs Reyrolle and Company, County Durham to dispatch all essential items on order (1) Account given of the recent troubles in the Electricity Department in Bahrain (2)

FO 371/126954

Air force of Muscat, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to: Muscat Air Force, in connection with clearing up the Oman rebels (1) Setting up of the Muscat Air Force; Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur will not be able to pay for this, but would otherwise make no difficulties (2) Arguments for and against a Muscat Air Force (3)

FO 371/126950

Customs regulations and free port of Bahrain, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to: Exemption from customs duty for British forces in Bahrain (1) Bahrain Port; including press reports that Manama had been declared a free port (2) Bahrain Government has announced the establishment of a free transit area in Bahrain from 1 January 1958, in order to maintain Bahrain's entrepôt trade with the Gulf Sheikhdoms and her re-export trade with Saudi Arabia (3) Bahrain newsletter No 13 announcing the establishment of a free transit area from 1 January 1958 (4) Reference to the declaration of Manama as a free port, and

FO 371/126949

Customs regulation of Qatar 1957, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to: G G Fitzmaurice's submission for the Qatar Customers Regulation, 1957 (1) Suggestion that the issue of Qatar customs regulations may have to be delayed as two difficulties have arisen (2)

FO 371/126948

Commercial relations between Kuwait and Soviet Union, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to Kuwait and trade with the Soviet Union and includes a report on the business dealings of younger merchants with the Soviet Union through Egypt or Czechoslovakia (1).

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