Comments on books, pamphlets and articles on Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms: visit by Mr Hammond Innes to obtain background material for a novel

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Enquiry concerning potential objections from the Foreign Office on the enclosed proof of a pamphlet on the Gulf Sheikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman written for the British Society for International Understanding (1)
• Proposed article by B A B Burrows on the Gulf for publication in the April issue of the Middle East Report (2)
• Visit of Mr Hammond Innes and Mr Template of the Air Ministry to obtain material on the Gulf and specifically Buraimi for background to a novel (3)
• Request for a reconsideration of a decision that Innes should not go to Buraimi (4)
• Comments on Mr Rentz's book on South East Arabia (5)
• Comments on the maladroitness with which the Air Ministry handled Innes visit to the Trucial Coast and Buraimi (6)
• Request from Ronald Russell BA MP, Editor of the Empire Commonwealth Year Book about the Gulf States for inclusion in the 1954 edition of that publication (7)
• Amended version of the pamphlet on Kuwait, dated June 1954, prepared by the Bahrain Residency (8)
• Progress made on Sir W R Hay's report on the Gulf (9)
• Text of an article by Burrows titled Piracy to Petroleum for the Middle East Report, dated 7 October 1954 (10)
• Handbooks on the Gulf and Kuwait, dated June 1954 (11)
• Translation of a book by Abbas Ighbal, published in Tehran covering Iran's long term claim to Bahrain (12)
• Request for information on the political and economic development in the Trucial States since the discovery and development of oil, for inclusion in one of the RAF magazines (13)
• Request from the Deputy Director of Air Force Liaison for information on the political and economic development which has taken place in Kuwait since the oil revenues have been available to the Sheikhs, to support a series of articles they are to produce (14)