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File 36: United States Interests

Catalogue reference: IOR/R/15/2/853-857

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This record is about the File 36: United States Interests dating from 1933-1949.

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Reference
IOR/R/15/2/853-857
Title
File 36: United States Interests
Date
1933-1949
Description

This Sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of the United States of America in the Gulf. The topics discussed are as follows:. the American Mission Hospital in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/853); foreign consular activities, primarily the US' desire for the establishment of a consulate in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/854); visits of US officials to Bahrain, 1934-1947 (IOR/R/15/2/855); US Government reports that the Russian Government had ordered the establishment of a sabotage network in the Middle East to target American oil interests (IOR/R/15/2/856); a Foreign Office report on US economic interests in the Middle East (IOR/R/15/2/857); In all of the files, the bulk of the correspondence is between British officials, but the files also contain correspondence with US officials as well as limited amount with local rulers, some of which is in Arabic. File IOR/R/15/2/853 contains some German correspondence related to the hiring of German-speaking doctors at the American Mission Hospital.

Arrangement

The former external references show possible gaps between the surviving files in the series and the numbers in brackets represent earlier file references.

Held by
British Library: Asian and African Studies
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
Arabic; English; German
Physical description
5 files (511 folios)
Access conditions

Unrestricted

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/1f42c726-dfbf-4ee3-8d47-217f2fdbb39d/

Series information

IOR/R/15/2

Political Agency, Bahrain

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File 36: United States Interests