Oman

FO 1016/626 1958
Description

This file contains correspondence relating to:

  • An item on the Treaty of Sib [Treaty of Seeb] (1920) in the summer issue of the Middle East Journal, 1958
  • A meeting between officials from the US State Department and the British Embassy to discuss the political relationship between the Sultanate of Muscat and the Imamate of Oman
  • A discussion about the efficiency of communications between Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur, Interior Minister Sayyed Ahmad Bin Ibrahim and the Trucial Oman Scouts (TOS)
  • Two reports on the deployment of mine detectors to Nizwa, and pardoning of Sheikh Mohammad Bin Abdulla Al Salmi by the Sultan, published in the Gulf Daily Times, 11 March 1958
  • A journey by Major F C L Chauncy to Batinah, Rustaq and Nakhal on 9 to 14 March 1958
  • An article on 'Rebels resuming Trouble in Oman', in the New York Times, 20 March 1958
  • A report by Major G T E Westbrook on present medical facilities in Muscat, 5 April 1958
  • An bilingual article titled 'Dream War' [Harb Khiyaliyyah] published to refute a press release by the Office of the Imamate of Oman in Damascus, which was issued in late March 1958
  • An article titled 'Egypt turns on Muscat' published in the Daily Mail, 23 September 1958
  • The complaints of the Rulers of Dubai and Umm Al Quwain, Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Sheikh Ahmad Bin Rashid Al Mu'alla about the Muscat customs post at Aswad.