UK aid

This file contains:

• The Annual Report on the working of the UK aid programme in the Gulf during 1966
• A note by the Head of the Economic Relations Department on the revised aid programme for 1968-69, including a table of related figures.

This file also contains correspondence concerning:

• The success of radio broadcasts from Cairo, Algiers, and Damascus over the West, and the UK's need for an extremely powerful medium wave transmitter to make its voice heard
• A proposal that aid and information be given an enhanced role in the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, to compensate for the cutting back of UK defence expenditure
• The need for British Council funding for the English language centre in Riyadh.